Andrew Sean Greer Quotes
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.
Does love always form, like a pearl, around the hardened bits of life?
So tell me gentleman, tell me the time and place where it was easy to be a woman.
Despite all their fears, we ask very little of the ones who never loved us. We do not ask for sympathy or pain or compassion. We simply want to know why.
How hollow to have no secrets left; you shake yourself and nothing rattles. You're boneless as an anemone.
I love going to writers' colonies in pastoral settings where there's nothing to do, but either walk around or read a book or work on your book.
When I meet a woman whose energy falters at the first barrier,she seems to fade beside my mother.
The possibilities. Is there any greater pain to know what could be, and yet be powerless to make it be?
When you were a little girl, Madam.....was this the woman you dreamed of becoming?
How often in life do people make that awful sacrifice, that murder of possibilities?
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.
When I meet a woman whose energy falters at the first barrier, she seems to fade beside my mother.