“ 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
“ 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
“ Every act of loving affirms the goodness of the lover just because he is capable of loving and being loved. John Dufresne
“ I loved her for what I couldn't understand about her. Love searches for the mystery in the beloved, seeks the unknowable. John Dufresne
“ You lose a wallet or keys or something and you notice in a second, but your life can go missing and you don't even know it. John Dufresne
“ 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 feelin… John Dufresne
“ 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… John Dufresne
