12 Quotes by Alexander Maksik

This marriage. It isn't happiness they feel. Something else. They feel possibility, a faint hope perhaps. But it has nothing to do with love. It has nothing to do with them together. We're three people in a room.

The moon was a fang in the lightning sky.

The quiet of a school emptied for the summer is that of a hotel closed for winter, a library closed for the night, ghosts swirling through the rooms.

We are smart people sitting in a room talking about beautiful things, ugly and difficult things.

And it was the speed that provided some solace. For if it moved like that, it would always move like that, and somehow, because of it, things change, somehow things end.

But all the wanting in the world, her mother reminded her, will leave you with exactly what you have.

This was the advantage of desire. Desire focused the mind. It eliminated extraneous thought. The greater the desire, the less the burden of the mind. She would like to live her life this way. Perhaps it was how to survive intact. Live to satisfy her desires. Desire only what she could have.

Cowards spend their lives alone. Either with people who can’t hurt them, or with no one at all.

It is the most fundamental thing I know about being alive: Everything that lasts is invention followed by tenacious faith.