Amy Bloom Quotes

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• It takes something to get married: nerve, hope, a strong desire to make a certain statement - and it takes something to stay married: more…
• Sophisticated readers understand that writers work out their anger, their conflicts, their endless grief and rolling list of loss, through their stories. That however mean-spirited…
• I have made the best and happiest ending that I can in this world, made it out of the flax and netting and leftover trim…
• Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.
• All intimacy is rare-that's what makes it precious.
• Be real and unashamed. Even of your faults.
• Great sex is not a pleasant soak in the tub, with the scented candle burning. Great sex is more like a bomb exploding inside your…
• In a true partnership, the kind worth striving for, the kind worth insisting on, and even, frankly, worth divorcing over, both people try to give…
• Boundaries are the lines we draw that mark off our autonomy and that of other people, that protect our privacy and that of others. Boundaries…
• I met Jay Jonhson. I won him the way poor people occasionally win the lottery: Shameless perseverance and embarrassingly dumb luck, and every time I…
• Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
• There is no such thing as a good writer and a bad liar.
• Learning to listen, letting people finish their sentences, and most of all, the habit of noticing the difference between what people say and how they…
• Be real and be unashamed, even of your faults. I do truly know what my husband is made of and vice versa.
• You cannot fake effort; talent is great, but perseverance is necessary.
• they danced as though they'd been waiting all their lives for each song.
• Everyone has two memories. The one you can tell and the one that is stuck to the underside of that, the dark, tarry smear of…
• I do not say what I feel, and people often take that for shyness, even kindness.
• Men do not know what they do not know, and women should not tell them.
• The past is a candle at great distance: too close to let you quit, too far to comfort you.

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