Elliot Perlman Quotes

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• At difficult times of my life, books have been an incredible comfort. When I was 12, I changed schools and my parents split up. It…
• Hell is the special pain that dwells in that loss which you yourself have caused
• Charisma will sustain a relationship only in the way that strong coffee first thing in the morning will sustain a career.
• When you're younger, you tend to be reckless about trying to find out who you are and what you can do and should do. But…
• He sits in his car at traffic lights on his way out sometimes and tries to estimate how many times he has sat here, waiting…
• You were trying to tell me something and I was trying to tell you something else. We didn't trust each other and that was reason…
• There's the ambiguity of human relationships, for instance. A relationship between two people, just like a sequence of words, is ambiguous if it is open…
• You would love the way he sees you. He uses you as a weapon against himself and not merely because you did
• What is it about men that make women so lonely?
• You know you're in love with somebody when you wake up next to them, comfortable despite your breath smelling like the week-old water at the…
• I hold him to my chest. My love for him is the only unequivocally good thing I know is always there inside of me. It…
• It's like the smell of burned toast. You made the toast. You looked forward to it. You even enjoyed making it, but it burned. What…
• Perhaps people ought to feel with more imagination.
• The peculiar striations that define someone's personality are too numerous to know, no matter how close the observer. A person we think we know can…
• Listen- all that she was then, all that she is now, those gestures, everything I remember but won't or can't articulate anymore, the perfect words…
• You don't need to be seeing someone to be in love with her. You can have lost touch with her, she can have hurt you,…
• I used to be a child. It came naturally to me. I was an adult for a time, too. That came less naturally.
• [Memory] visits when it is hungry, not when you are.
• What else is life from the time you were born but a struggle to matter, at least to someone?
• Combine a left-leaning upbringing with a family with direct experience of the Holocaust and someone with aspirations to write and I guess, sooner or later,…

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