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1. "It wasn't that I wanted to know her now. I wanted to have already known her. I wanted her fears and her desires to have shaped my life. I know this is not love, of course. What it is is a queer feeling of nostalgia for an impossible future, for what can never be. That's fantasy. Love is different." ~ John Dufresne
2. "Love is always a surprise and you never get it right." ~ John Dufresne
3. "We read novels because we need stories; we crave them; we can't live without telling them and hearing them. Stories are how we make sense of our lives and of the world. When we're distressed and go to therapy, our therapist's job is to help us tell our story. Life doesn't come with plots; it's messy and chaotic; life is one damn, inexplicable thing after another. And we can't have that. We insist on meaning. And so we tell stories so that our lives make sense." ~ John Dufresne
4. "You make allowances for your family. They may not seem normal to the world but they're normal to you because you've been dealing with them all your life." ~ John Dufresne
5. "She knows what it's like to love someone who cannot love you back. Someone who needs you, holds you, yes, but someone who will never know that love is the knife in your heart." ~ John Dufresne
6. "A pure love is a selfless love, but can desire ever be selfless?" ~ John Dufresne
7. "I loved her for what I couldn't understand about her. Love searches for the mystery in the beloved, seeks the unknowable." ~ John Dufresne
8. "A lack of narrative structure, as you know, will cause anxiety." ~ John Dufresne
9. "Pleasure is, after all, a luxury. It's love that's essential." ~ John Dufresne
10. "The universe may be tenderly indifferent to our fate, but we shouldn't be. We are our brothers' keepers. There is right, and there is wrong. There are consequences to our actions or inactions. Disregard can be an act of violence." ~ John Dufresne
11. "I told her how I thought you could always revise your life, how you could work and work on it, finesse the details, see if what you're saying is what you wanted to be saying." ~ John Dufresne
12. "Memory is a rascal." ~ John Dufresne
13. "Reading honest literature makes you love the world. Knowledge and understanding are love. Reading educates our feelings and enhances our sympathy. When you read for understanding, you are fundamentally changed. You are a different person at the end of the story or the novel than you were when it began." ~ John Dufresne
14. "Inez and I had been in the same book club for a while. She once told me that literary theory was reading without imagination, and I've loved her ever since." ~ John Dufresne

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