Getting to a higher spiritual level is like increasing your credit score. You get a lot more points for sinning and repenting than if you have no credit history at all.
But the absence of tears wasn’t the same as an absence of feeling.
I think in a moment of weakness, you might surprise yourself.
I had to wait for someone special. Someone who would make my heart feel as if it’s been trampled by elephants, thrown into the amazon, and eaten by piranhas.
I didn’t think there was any way to convince Jack that he wanted more than I had to give, that to people who’d been damaged the way I had been, fear and the will to survive would always be more powerful than attachment. I could only love in a limited way.
I had learned this lesson so many times before. It was the great inner truth that didn’t require the support of logic. Every time I loved, I lost, and I was diminished. I wondered how much of me would be left after tomorrow.
If you pretend everything’s fine long enough, everything eventually becomes fine.
Well, I find a strange comfort in the fact that he wouldn’t feel this degree of animosity now, had he not loved me so much before.
I feel like I’ve been shut in a closet, and he’s on the other side, and he doesn’t have the key to unlock the door.
One can’t help but marvel at the variety of ways that women had devised to make us look like flaming idiots.
I understood finally that the thing I should have feared most was not loss, but never loving. The price for safety was the regret I felt at this moment. And yet I would have to live with it for the rest of my life.
I rarely dislike people for things they can’t change, they usually give me sufficient cause to dislike them for other reasons.
I don’t share my body heat indiscriminately.
It was often in small moments that significant things were revealed.
You can’t love someone new without getting over the last one.
Merripen, despite his fear of heights, had often climbed a ladder to wash the second floor window for her. He had wanted her view of the outside world to be clear. He had said the sky should always be blue for her.
One should make the best choice possible given the circumstances, and then avoid second-guessing for the sake of one’s own sanity.
In this life and the next, you’re my only hope at happiness.
Oh, Daisy, it’s revolting the way I want to fawn all over him. I’m afraid I’m going to do something dreadfully silly today. Burst into song or something. For God’s sake, don’t let me.
Perhaps only those who had loved and lost could appreciate this magic.