40 Quotes by Susan Choi

Heartbreak doesn’t flow through the heart but along that frail shallow canal of the sternum.

Possibly first love, despite all the fuss, is only mating with ideas attached.

Once you’re old enough to recognize a hole in yourself it’s too late for the hole to be filled.

We never know, when life reunites us with someone, how closely our stories will match.

And right away her gaze went hard with the anger we always feel at the person who spoils our idea of ourself.

Obsession is an accidental haunting, by a person not aware she’s a ghost. I knew Sarah was my ghost, but she’d forgotten I even existed.

The vast southern city they lived in was rich in land, poor in everything else – no bodies of water, no drainage, no hills, no topographical variety of any sort, no public transportation or even the awareness of the lack of such a thing.

She wasn’t petty, she has never been petty, has never had enough self-possession, or possessed enough self, to afford pettiness, because petty is a way people are who have something to spare.

Something crossed his face, a pure motion like wind over water – I couldn’t have guessed what emotion it was. “I’ll miss you,” he said.