Falling in
love is not an abrupt plunge; it is a gradual descent, seldom in
a straight line, rather like the floating downward of a parachute. And the expression is imperfect because while one may fall one also levitates.
-Caveat Emptor
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Falling in
love is not an abrupt plunge; it is a gradual descent, seldom in
a straight line, rather like the floating downward of a parachute. And the expression is imperfect because while one may fall one also levitates.
-Caveat Emptor
1970 Pulitzer Prize winner for Fiction, the collected short story of Jean Stafford
#2018PulitzerPrizeReadingGoal
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"Why, I can smile and murder whiles I smile,
And cry 'content' to that which grieves my heart,
And wet my cheeks with artificial tears,
And frame my face for all occasions"
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28/38
"Her face was black and ours were white, but we were together anyhow. Her life and his. And ours."
"Life is to be live, not trade on like dollar."
#PulitzerPrizeReadingGoal
You think the honorable Ned Stark wanted to hear my side? He judged me guilty the moment he set eyes on me. By what right does the wolf judge the lion? By what right?"
“Do you like being alone?” he asked.
“No. No one likes being alone. But I‘ve learned how to live with it.”
Latest book haul si a hardbound Vikings Portable James Joyce and a first edition Jazz by Toni Morrison. :)
"I knew I had no hold on him, nothing to offer, nothing to lure him by.
I was nothing."
"“Later!” The word, the voice, the attitude.
I‘d never heard anyone use “later” to say goodbye before. It sounded harsh, curt, and dismissive, spoken with the veiled indifference of people who may not care to see or hear from you again.
It is the first thing I remember about him, and I can hear it still today. Later!
I shut my eyes, say the word, and I‘m back in Italy, so many years ago..."
