20 Quotes by Binnie Kirshenbaum

A token of love comes in a box because love itself cannot be contained.

Except, how do we go on when what was best is behind us? When the longing is not for someone you have not yet met, but for someone you knew and lost?

I leave off mid-sentence, and then can finish it the next day with less anxiety expended than for a new thought.

Everyone does deserve a second chance, although we don’t often get one, and even when we do get a second chance, we’re likely to make the same mistake again. The things we learn later rather than sooner tend to result from harsh lessons, but mostly we learn nothing at all.

The end of all things – a book, a life, a summer, a marriage, the last bite of cake, the last of innocence lost, a love affair – is always sad, at least a little bit sad, because it is the end, the end of that.

To not want to be alive is not the same thing as wanting to be dead.

The moral of the story is this: sometimes, to do nothing, to do nothing at all, is the sorriest thing ever.

Sometimes late and never amount to the same thing. Sometimes, it has to be now or never.

That kind of empty; when hope is no longer deferred but evaporated, and try as you might, and you do try, you can’t find the pleasure in the little things. A fine meal, good music, a breathtaking view of the landscape, the smell of the ocean, snow falling, it all adds up to a storehouse of memories and regrets, and you can’t imagine there’s a perchance left to be had.