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Our love was the affliction for which only our love was the cure.
Was his death an essential stage in the continuation of his life?
It would be possible, in theory, for life and art to be reversed.
I could not believe in a God that would challenge faith like this.
Hunting will never feed lots of people; it will always be a hobby.
I hope you never think about anything as much as I think about you.
Stories about food are stories about us-our history and our values.
She avoids mirrors, and lifts a powerful telescope to find herself.
It was getting hard to keep all the things I didn't know inside me.
Food is not rational. Food is culture, habit, craving and identity.
I wanted so much to have a life. Even just once, even for a second.
In my family, Father is the world champion at ending conversations.
Succotash my cocker spaniel, you fudging crevasse-hole dipshiitake!
Literature has drawn a funny perimeter that other art forms haven't.
I don't mind if smiles come at my expense, I'm a small price to pay.
Being with him made my brain quiet. I didn't have to invent a thing.
I wish my days could be washed away like the chalk lines of my days.
Oh,' she said. 'I have never seen a Jew before. Can I see his horns?
Tomorrow was over the horizon, and would take an entire day to reach.
People who become used to saying little become used to feeling little.
Things were happening around us, but nothing was happening between us.
The only thing worse than being sad is for others to know you are sad.
I'm so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything
Everything is to protect you. I exist in case you need to be protected.
Memories are small prayers to God, if we believed in that sort of thing.
Time was passing like a hand waving from a train that I wanted to be on.
We cracked up together, which was necessary, because she loved me again.
I hated myself for going, why couldn't I be the kind of person who stays?
Do you have any coffee?'...'It stunts my growth, and I'm afraid of death.
When you look up 'hilarious' in the dictionary, there's a picture of you.
I am doing something I hate for you. This is what it means to be in love.
The world is a big place," he said, "but so is the inside of an apartment!
I made up my mind that nothing,, nothing was going to stop me Not even me.
Love me, because love doesn't exist, and I have tried everything that does.
What were we spending so much time doing if not getting to know each other?
The secret was a hole in the middle of me that every happy thing fell into.
Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled.
People shouldn't be allowed to get married until it's too late to have kids.
Why wouldn't - how couldn't - an author care about how his or her books look?
We looked at each other until it felt like everything would burst into flames
Once you hear something, you can never return to the time before you heard it.
In the end, everyone loses everyone. There was no invention to get around that.
They learned to hate her unknowability, her untouchability, the collage of her.
Not responding is a response - we are equally responsible for what we don't do.
It is my great hope that our paths, however long and winding, will cross again.
We believed in our grandmother’s cooking more fervently than we believed in God.
I ran rather than walked, anxious to lose my way. All I wanted was to be unsure.
[...]It is as if after surviving so much, there was no longer reason to survive.
Is there really anyone, besides Rudy Giuliani, who prefers the new Times Square?
I don't think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem.