Quotes from work

The Lover's Dictionary

“I will be the one to leave you.”

“What did it matter to me? Did I think that by making you rational about one thing, I could make you rational about everything? Maybe. Or maybe I just wanted to save you from your fears”

“It was a mistake," you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you.”

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I spent all this time building a relationship. Then one night I left the window open and it started to rust.”

“If you and I really, truly wanted to change the world, we'd invent more words that started with.”

“When I say,, I don't mean,. I don't mean,. I don't mean,.
I want us to go back down to that root.
I want you to be the one who loves me.
I want to be the one who loves you.”

“adj.
It has always been my habit, ever since junior high school, to ask that question:
“What are you thinking?”
It is always an act of desperation, and I keep on asking, even though I know it will never work the way I want it to.”

“For I have never wanted a lover, but I have always wanted to love, and to be loved.”

“arrears, n.
My faithfulness was as unthinking as your lapse. Of all the things I though would go wrong, I never thought it would be that.
"It was a mistake," you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you.”

“You leave the phone on beside you as you fall asleep. I sit in my bed and listen to your breathing, until I know you are safe, until I know you no longer need me for the night.”

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"Most times, when I'm having sex, I'd rather be reading."
This was, I admit, a strange thing to say on a second date.
I guess I was just giving you a warning.
"Most times when I'm reading," you said, "I'd rather be having sex".”

“I would always wait to take you home.”

“This is a difference between us: you desire what other people have, while I desire the things I used to have, or think I might have one day.”

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I never understood why anyone would have sex on the floor. Until I was with you and I realized: you don't realize you're on the floor.”

“But there was something about you that made me think of sparks and motion.”

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At the end of the French movie, the lover sings, "Love me less, but love me for a long time.”

“I'm not even going to try.”

“Maybe language is kind, giving us these double meanings. Maybe it's trying to teach us a lesson, that we can always be two things at once.”

“stanchion, n.

I don't want to be the strong one, but I don't want to be the weak one either. Why does it feel like it's always one or the other? When we embrace, one of us is always holding the other a little tighter.”