13 Quotes by Lydia Netzer

Why do some people fall in love each other and other don’t? What is love? Its so, so stupid. Right up until its real. And then its the most important thing in the world, whether you believe in it or not.

They were probably fifty feet away from each other. How far is fifty feet? To the top of the tallest tree? From one lip of a volcano to the other? As far as a man can go in ten seconds, striding briskly? As far as a man can go in five seconds, falling over himself in enthusiasm?

Maybe some people don’t feel scared when they think about comets and supernovas. Maybe they think it is wonderful.

Who cares if it’s dangerous? Who wants to be the person who doesn’t touch two bells together to make a sound, who doesn’t hit a baseball with a bat, doesn’t grind and orange against a knife. In life, there is only collision to keep us from dissolution, and there is only love to keep us from death. In this bumping into that, there is salvation and sacrament, an end to the endless falling, a wall between us and oblivion.