"Our flesh is the debris of dead stars, and this is also true of the apple and its tree, of each hair on the spider's legs, and of the rock rusting on planet Mars. Each minuscule being has spokes radiating out to all creation...Having experienced and understood this marvelous congruity, man can no longer examine his surroundings merely as a surface scattered with alien objects and creatures related to him only by their usefulness."

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In the Distance by Hernan Diaz

 

"Independence was expensive—or to put it another way, freedom only came at a cost."

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Bonding by Mariel Franklin

 

"Love, when it works, can feel like such a terrifying fluke. Two people have to choose and be chosen, and, most unlikely of all, these choices must happen at roughly the same time." 

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A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck by Sophie Elmhirst

 

"If I had created Patrick Bateman I would now write a story in which he was uncreated and his world was erased."

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Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis

 

"That was not how people changed; they didn't change themselves: you got changed by being made to live through something, and then you found yourself changed."  

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The Summer Before the Dark by Doris Lessing

 

"Today, romantic relationships are often aspired to by women primarily because of the promise of  emotional reciprocity and closeness they promise." 

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Love in Exile by Shon Faye

 

"Whatever tone it takes, whatever magnetic field it generates, this latter kind of contact with inconvenience disturbs the vision of yourself you carry around that supports your sovereign fantasy, your fantasy of being in control...sovereignty is always in defense of something, not a right or natural state."

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On the Inconvenience of Other People by Lauren Berlant

 

"Wasn't that what a marriage ought to be? Like one of those movie-style disasters—shipwrecks or earthquakes or enemy prisons—where strangers, trapped in close quarters by circumstance, show their real strengths and weaknesses."

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Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler

 

"Any love affair is a creative act, part imagination, part practice; often, it can lift an artist to new levels of exalted energy."

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Why Sinatra Matters by Pete Hamill

 

"Language, too, was a knife. It could cut open the world and reveal its meaning, its inner workings, its secrets, its truths." 

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Knife by Salman Rushdie

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