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Asa, as I Knew Him QUOTES

Asa, as I Knew Him QUOTES

1 " Can human beings love each other? Must we always love an image we've labored over secretly, never love the living soul with all its mire and murk? "

― Susanna Kaysen , Asa, as I Knew Him

2 " My friends have hated Asa, first for monopolizing my mind, then for the endless discussions of him they were subjected to, finally, for making me unhappy. "

― Susanna Kaysen , Asa, as I Knew Him

3 " Just to get through life was no ambition. It was the opposite of ambition. "

― Susanna Kaysen , Asa, as I Knew Him

4 " Asa had a sharp understanding of the future--that is, a time when this would be past. Time was rushing through and around him, he almost heard it whistling, and this awareness rounded the world somehow and made it sweet. "

― Susanna Kaysen , Asa, as I Knew Him

5 " sa’s smell (the fragrance of a beautiful man) is what I miss the most.
[…]
Like a virus his smell entered me and changed my cells,
slowly, over years, until they craved only that smell, which was their oxygen. "

― Susanna Kaysen , Asa, as I Knew Him

6 " Asa’s smell (the fragrance of a beautiful man) is what I miss the most.
[…]
Like a virus his smell entered me and changed my cells,
slowly, over years, until they craved only that smell, which was their oxygen. "

― Susanna Kaysen , Asa, as I Knew Him