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Top Andrew Sean Greer Quotes

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Favorite Andrew Sean Greer Quotes

1. "We are each the love of someone's life." ~ Andrew Sean Greer
2. "How hollow to have no secrets left; you shake yourself and nothing rattles. You're boneless as an anemone." ~ Andrew Sean Greer
3. "It is almost another kind of love, being loved. It is the same heat but from another room; it is the same sound but from a high window..." ~ Andrew Sean Greer
4. "The shock was akin to that of buying, out of duty, a novel written by a dull and uninspired acquaintance and finding there passages of heartrending beauty and rapture that one could never imagine coming from such a tedious person." ~ Andrew Sean Greer
5. "If you clenched your right hand in a fist, that would be my San Francisco, knocking on the Golden Gate. Your little finger would be sunny downtown on the bay, and your thumb would be our Ocean Beach out on the blue Pacific. They called it the Sunset...It sat on the very edge of the continent, with fog so dense and silver you hardly ever saw a sunset in the Sunset..." ~ Andrew Sean Greer
6. "We are deaf to what life brings us." ~ Andrew Sean Greer
7. "A lover exists only in fragments, a dozen or so if the romance is new, a thousand if we're married to him, and out of those fragments our heart constructs an entire person. What we each create, since whatever is missing is filled by our imagination, is the person we wish him to be. The less we know him, of course, the more we love him. And that's why we always remember that first rapturous night when he was a stranger, and why this rapture returns only when he's dead." ~ Andrew Sean Greer
8. "Change was not something you waited for, quietly, mutely, in a house by the ocean, nothing would ever change unless we forced it into shape." ~ Andrew Sean Greer
9. "Does love always form, like a pearl, around the hardened bits of life?" ~ Andrew Sean Greer
10. "Perhaps love is a minor madness. And as with madness, it's unendurable alone. The one person who can relieve us is of course the sole person we cannot go to: the one we love. So instead we seek out allies, even among strangers and wives, fellow patients who, if they can't touch the edge of our particular sorrow, have felt something that cuts nearly as deep." ~ Andrew Sean Greer
11. "How do you make someone love you? For the very young, there can be nothing harder in the world. You may try as hard as you like: place yourself beside them, cook their favourite food, bring them wine or sing the love songs that you know will move them. They will not move them. Nothing will move them. You will waste days interpreting the simple banalities of a phone call; months staring at their soft lips as they talk; you will waste years watching a body sitting in a chair and willing every muscle to take you across the room and do a simple thing, say a simple word, make them love you and you will not do it; you will waste long nights wondering how they cannot feel this - the urge to embrace, the snow melt in the heart when you are near them - how they can sit in that chair, or speak with those lips, or make a call and mean nothing by it, hide nothing in their hearts. Or perhaps what they hide is not what you want to see. Because surely they love someone. It simply isn't you." ~ Andrew Sean Greer
12. "It takes too much imagination to see the sorrows of people we take for happy. Their real battles take place, like those of the stars, in some realm of light imperceptible to the human eye. It is a feat of the mind to guess another's heart." ~ Andrew Sean Greer
13. "It is a brave and stupid thing, a beautiful thing, to waste one's life for love." ~ Andrew Sean Greer
14. "How remarkable we are in our ability to hide things from ourselves - our conscious minds only a small portion of our actual minds, jellyfish floating on a vast dark sea of knowing and deciding." ~ Andrew Sean Greer
15. "So tell me gentleman, tell me the time and place where it was easy to be a woman." ~ Andrew Sean Greer
16. "No one would have known, from how he held my hand, [that] over the years of heartache he had hatched a plot to change my life forever. He held his grip and would not let me go. I do not know what joins the parts of an atom, but it seems what binds one human to another is pain." ~ Andrew Sean Greer
17. "I am sure we both loved a different man. Because a lover exists only in fragments, a dozen or so if the romance is new, a thousand if we've married him, and out of those fragments our heart constructs an entire person. What we each create, since whatever is missing is filled in by our imagination, is the person we wish him to be. The less we know him, of course, the more we love him." ~ Andrew Sean Greer
18. "Here was a thing that would grow old; here was a thing that would turn beautiful and lose that beauty, that would inherit the grace but also the bad ear and flawed figure of her mother, that would smile too much and squint too often and spend the last decades of her life creaming away the wrinkles made in youth until she finally gave up and wore a collar of pears to hide a wattle; here was the ordinary sadness of the world." ~ Andrew Sean Greer
19. "When you were a little girl, Madam.....was this the woman you dreamed of becoming?" ~ Andrew Sean Greer
20. "It may be a childish torment, but we do not get to choose our demons." ~ Andrew Sean Greer
21. "We think we know people, and dismiss the scenes as aberrations, as the lightning strikes of madness, but surely we are wrong. Surely these are the truest moments of their lives." ~ Andrew Sean Greer
22. "As the Japanese will tell you, one can train a rose to grow through anything, to grow through a nautilus even, but it must be done with tenderness." ~ Andrew Sean Greer
23. "When I meet a woman whose energy falters at the first barrier,she seems to fade beside my mother." ~ Andrew Sean Greer

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