138 Quotes by Amy Bloom

Love at first sight is easy to understand; it’s when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle.

We were determined to be the people we wanted to be and not the blind, desperate people we were.

But in the morning everything can, and must, be seen. Daylight takes us; it peels us like fruit.

A blind man can see how much I love you.

We love the attentiveness of powerful people, because it’s such a pleasant, gratifying surprise, but Eleanor was not a grand light shining briefly on the lucky little people. She reached for the soul of everyone who spoke to her, every day. She bowed her head toward yours, as if there was nothing but the time and necessary space for two people to briefly love each other.

All intimacy is rare-that’s what makes it precious.

There are people you always love, no matter what they have done to you, no matter what you have done to them.

We had agreed that “in love” had burned out after four years for us, the way it does for most of us, in two months or two years and, I guess, never for some lucky people. Instead of a trail of fire roaring through, those people get small candles steadily lighting the way home until death do they part, and only the young are stupid enough to think that those two old people, him gimping, her squinting, are not in love.

She insulted conservatives and cowards every time she opened her mouth.