212 Quotes by Leslie Jamison

Everything between us felt exhausted, brittle, depleted. The hot magma of conflict – with all its heat and surge – had cooled into hardened ridges of resentment, a quieter lunar landscape.

Rhys once wrote in her journal. “I wanted to be loved and I wanted to be always alone.

Pain without cause is a pain we can’t trust. We assume it’s been chosen or fabricated.

This unknowing is one more definition of love: committing to a story you can’t fully imagines when it begins.

One definition of living might be the perpetual swapping of story lines. We trade in the scripts we’ve written for ourselves and get our real lives in return.

They acknowledge that the realities closest to us – the rhythms of our lives, the people we love most – are shaped by forces beyond the edges of our sight.

Don’t assume the contours of another person’s heart. Don’t assume its desires.

I wanted Dave to guess what I needed at precisely the same time I needed it. I wanted him to imagine how much small signals of his presence might mean.

I really believe in people putting stories out there that contain the most difficult moments because nothing to me is more lonely making than sanitized stories or airbrushed stories that kind of allied how hard it got.