“ When I meet a woman whose energy falters at the first barrier,she seems to fade beside my mother. Andrew Sean Greer
“ Less saw its marks and scars and aches not as failures of age but the opposite: the evidence, as Raymond Chandler once wrote, of a gaudy life. Andrew Sean Greer
“ 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 al… Andrew Sean Greer
“ Strange to be almost fifty, no? I feel like I just understood how to be young.""Yes! It's like the last day in a foreign country. You finally figure out where to get coffee, and drinks, and a good ste… Andrew Sean Greer
“ We have no heart at seventeen. We think we do; we think we have been cursed with a holy, bloated thing that twitches at the name we adore, but it is not a heart because though it will forfeit anything… Andrew Sean Greer
“ How often in life do people make that awful sacrifice, that murder of possibilities? Andrew Sean Greer
“ Young people are inept at love; it is like being given a flying machine, and you leap inside, ready to set off as you've always dreamed, yet you don't have the first notion of how to make it start, mu… Andrew Sean Greer
“ It's just that, you know how it is in some relationships, how one of them is a little more in love. Well, it's like that with friendships. Sometimes one of them thinks they're really close, closer tha… Andrew Sean Greer
“ So tell me gentleman, tell me the time and place where it was easy to be a woman. Andrew Sean Greer
“ 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
“ 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
“ 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… Andrew Sean Greer
