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And Clare, always Clare.
He is coming, and I am here.
I love. I have loved. I will love.
I feel that I an everything to her.
Why is love intensified by absence?
There's always world enough and time.
we both smile and we are conspirators.
The cure might be worse than the problem
My family isn't posh; they're musicians.
I'm bored with knitting. I've taken up arson.
I keep myself busy. Time goes faster that way.
Everything seems simple until you think about it.
Is it sad to fancy David Tennant when you're dead?
I don't want to boss anyone and I don't want to be bossed.
It was silly, wasn't it? But the singing made it not silly.
I won't ever leave you, even though you're always leaving me.
Sleep is my lover now, my forgetting, my opiate, my oblivion.
Chaos is more freedom; in fact, total freedom. But no meaning.
absence can be present, like a damaged nerve, like a dark bird
Mama said, "Dreams are different to real life but important too."
I guess no matter what your family is like, you're not surprised.
I wanted someone to love who would stay: stay and be there, always.
When the woman you live with is an artist, every day is a surprise.
It's hard being left behind. (...) It's hard to be the one who stays.
It’s dark now and I am very tired. I love you, always. Time is nothing.
But as usual there's no answer to this. As usual, that's just how it is.
that's what I love you for: your inability to perceive all my hideous flaws
My apartment is basically a couch, an armchair, and about four thousand books.
But you make me happy. It's living up to being happy that's the difficult part.
You're the oddest person I've ever met, you couldn't get rid of me if you tried.
Sometimes I'm happy when he's gone, but I'm always happy when he returns. -Clare
I never understood why Clark Kent was so hell bent on keeping Lois Lane in the dark.
What we need,' Henry says, 'is a fresh start. A blank slate. Let's call her Tabula Rasa.
Love you..." Henry-" Always..." Oh God oh God-" World enough..." No!" And time..." Henry!
I think play must have been invented so we wouldn't go mad thinking about certain things.
I hate to be where she is not, when she is not. And yet, I am always going. - Henry deTamble
CLARE: The library is cool and smells like carpet cleaner, although all I can see is marble.
I have a sort of Christmas-morning sense of the library as a big box full of beautiful books.
I look at him, look at the book, remember, this book, this moment, the first book I ever loved
That's what alcoholics do. It's in their job description: fall apart and then keep falling apart.
He looks sad. Or maybe that's just how he looks when he isn't doing something else with his face.
Clare seems so pleased with the idea of me as a pirate that she forgets that I am Stranger Danger.
Listen, sometimes when you finally find out, you realize that you were much better off not knowing.
Do you ever miss him? Every day. Every minute. Every minute, she says. Yes, it's that way, isn't it?
What are you doing?" Nothing. Breaking and entering. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.
I never wanted to have anything in my life that I couldn't stand losing. But it's too late for that.
…she smiles in an exhausted but warm sort of way, as though she is a brilliant sun in some other galaxy
It's funny how we like labels. If I ever have a bookstore, I'm not going to put any labels on the sections.
Each spine was an encapsulated memory, each book represented hours, days of pleasure, of immersion into words.
What is more basic than the need to be known? It is the entirety of intimacy, the elixir of love, this knowing.