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- Men are not to be told anything they might find too painful; the secret depths of human nature, the sordid physicalities, might overwhelm or damage…
- And sometimes it happened, for a time. That kind of love comes and goes and is hard to remember afterwards, like pain. You would look…
- But I keep going on with this sad and hungry and sordid, this limping and mutilated story, because after all I want you to hear…
- Falling in love, although it resulted in altered body chemistry and was therefore real, was a hormonally induced delusional state, according to him. In addition…
- Karen wasn't hard, she was soft, too soft. A soft touch. Her hair was soft, her smile was soft, her voice was soft. She was…
- Knowing too much about other people puts you in their power, they have a claim on you, you are forced to understand their reasons for…
- No more photos. Surely there are enough. No more shadows of myself thrown by light onto pieces of paper, onto squares of plastic. No more…
- I have periods now, like normal girls; I too am among the knowing, I too can sit out volleyball games and go to the nurse's…
- He's lost something, some illusion I used to think was necessary to him. He's come to realize he too is human. Or is this a…
- When you're young, you think everything you do is disposable. You move from now to now, crumpling time up in your hands, tossing it away.…
- What is it the I'll want from you? Not love: that would be too much to ask. Not forgiveness, which isn't yours to bestow. Only…
- But who can remember pain, once it’s over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even, in the flesh. Pain…
- This has been her problem all her life: picturing other people's responses. She's too good at it. She can picture the response of anyone--other people's…
- I'm a fool, to confuse this with goodness. I am not good. I know too much to be good. I know myself. I know myself…
- He doesn't know which is worse, a past he can't regain or a present that will destroy him if he looks at it too clearly.…
- Of course (said Oryx), having a money value was no substitute for love. Every child should have love, every person should have it. . .…
- Publishing a book is like stuffing a note into a bottle and hurling it into the sea. Some bottles drown, some come safe to land,…
- Things written down can cause a great deal of harm. All too often, people don't consider that.
- It's impossible to say a thing exactly the way it was, because of what you say can never be exact, you always have to leave…
- The newspaper stories were like dreams to us, bad dreams dreamt by others. How awful, we would say, and they were, but they were awful…
- But remember that forgiveness too is a power. To beg for it is a power, and to withhold or bestow it is a power, perhaps…
- But maybe, underneath, she loves him too much. Maybe it's her excessive love that pushes him away.
- They seemed to be able to choose. We seemed to be able to choose, then. We were a society dying of too much choice.
- ... all this talking, this rather liquid confessing, was something I didn't think I could ever bring myself to do. It seemed foolhardy to me,…
- Why is it he feels some line has been crossed, some boundary transgressed? How much is too much, how far is too far?
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