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1 " The wait is long, my dream of you does not end. "
― Nuala O'Faolain , My Dream of You
2 " ..though silence must add intensity to your intimate moments, it must also shrivel your soul to lie beside someone who doesn't talk to you. "
3 " Do the thing that's less passive. Do the active thing. There's more of the human in that. "
4 " ...when I was young, I learned to feel for the harshness under every soft appearance. "
5 " Lovers are allowed to be as cruel as anything to the one who dissappoints them. "
6 " ...time is the third party to every relationship. "
7 " Permanence, I once copied down from a magazine, is what we all want when we can love and can be loved; change is what we want when we cannot. "
8 " What makes a woman into a doormat? What makes her see some quite ordinary other person as a looming Goliath? And are not these relationships such an outrage to reality that they cannot last a lifetime? "
9 " But this upland pass was the right place for remembering how, when I was young, I learned to feel for the harshness underneath every soft appearance. "
10 " I did believe, from my experience of life and of looking at the world, that men hated women. "
11 " There was nothing between the man and me - - nothing, not even liking. But because of the memory of some wholeness, or the hope of some regeneration, I would have dropped whatever I'd planned, just to go back to scratching around on his bed. "
12 " The world is wonderful, she said. All its little things. It is wonderful. "
13 " They're fathers second, Jimmy said. They're men first. "
14 " ...Though it seemed trivial, now, to describe a place as if what is was, was what I could see of it. "
15 " Did anyone ever hear of an intelligent fantasy? "
16 " But you know, there's one simple thing I see absolutely clearly, now that I am so very old.I looked at her. The Albert Einstein hairstyle, and the bright black eyes and the sharp nose. That pallor on her face.She put her small hand on mine.The world is wonderful, she said. All its little things. It is wonderful. "
17 " I tried not to think about it. But every so often it would burst out of me - why did he do something so unkind? What had I done to deserve it? I did believe, from my experience of life and of looking at the world, that men hated women. But there were all kinds of exceptions, and I'd have bet everything that this man didn't hate me, this woman. "
18 " L'attesa lunga, il mio sogno di te non finito. "