Quote by David LaRochelle

“They were all so jovial and relaxed with one another, fraternal even. Maybe I was envious of that. They had lives—that was evident.”

— Ottessa Moshfegh

“...a really good friend, the kind of friend who - when they were together both of them were more able to be who they…

— Cynthia Voigt

“She was his like a table or a chair, but a table owned you, too - by your fingerprints.”

— Graham Greene

“It was interesting how you could say things when you were walking that you might not otherwise have said with the pressure of eye…

— Liane Moriarty

“I think they must have recognized something in each other, some poorly concealed intensity that other people find nerve-racking.”

— Helen Oyeyemi

“relationships were complicated, volatile things. They were riddled with lies, with hidden secrets, ones you only found out about when it was too late.”

— Ania Ahlborn

“It's fascinating, how they managed to wound each other so easily and accidentally.”

— Jennifer Castle

“I don't know how it all at once came to me to talk a lot, tell jokes, kick up, and suddenly have views. When…

— Saul Bellow

“All the unspoken things that were said with glances and implications. One of the things he liked best about being in a relationship: It…

— L.A. Witt

“Often, I felt there was something unsaid behind them, a deeper interpretation I was supposed to take from it and I wondered just how…

— Nicky James

“It was odd and intimate, their hands connected, their heads in different rooms. They could talk. They could hold hands. But they couldn't see…

— Jess Walter

“She recognized that that is how friendships begin: one person reveals a moment of strangeness, and the other person decides just to listen and…

— Meg Wolitzer