46 Quotes About Enigma-variations

But the whole thing didn't go anywhere—though it never went away either. It just sat there, no past, no future, like a glass of wine filled to the rim but never drunk from.

I'm like someone who never got off a train that traveled past the last stop.

Until now, talk has never gone anywhere. All I do is steal wisps of information in the hope of cobbling together your portrait, the way sketch artists do at police stations.

If I had a tumor, then I'd be dead before the year was out, and if I were dead, then there'd be nothing left, no second chances, no leap-year parties, and this waiting for the right time would have been for nothing. I will have died having lived the wrong life. No, not lived: waited.

In the crowded room with the view of the Hudson, the realization that ours was a stillborn love began to cramp something in me. It wasn't going to kill me, but I wanted to find a corner somewhere in this large apartment where I could be alone and hate myself.

I think of the poor man selling hot dogs all day, already planning what he'll need to pack up, what to give away, what to remember, what to let go of, things, places, people, a lifetime.

Stop it. Learn to take things at face value. You're always looking for what's not there.

She reminds me of infatuated women in 1940s movies who travel by ship and lounge alone on deck and cannot read and all they want is to stroll about at night until the man they love shows up again and offers to light their cigarette.

I had no idea why I'd written these words. But it was the first time I had taken something in my chest about you and put it in words out into the real world.