The History Of Love Quotes
"I try to make a point of being seen. Sometimes when I’m out, I’ll buy a juice even though I’m not thirsty."
"All I want is not to die on a day when I went unseen."
"To live in an undescribed world was too lonely."
"Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering."
"It’s possible that some small part of me has never stopped hoping—that even now there are moments when I believe my beauty is yet to come."
"I want to say somewhere: I’ve tried to be forgiving."
"To everything a season, to every time I’ve woken only to make the mistake of believing for a moment that someone was sleeping beside me."
"Sometimes pages of the dictionaries come loose and gather at her feet, like the petals of an immense flower."
"She’s kept her love for him as alive as the summer they first met. In order to do this, she’s turned life away."
"My mother is lonely even when we’re around her."
"The idea of evolution is so beautiful and sad."
"But maybe it doesn’t need to be that way. Maybe if I tell you that a very long time ago someone once read to me as I was falling asleep a few pages from a book called The History of Love, and that all these years later I haven’t forgotten that night, or those pages, you’d understand."
"If you have to stop loving someone, one of the best ways is to be kind to them."
"Sometimes not speaking says more than all the words in the world."
"The first step in learning to love someone else is to stop loving yourself."
"At the end, all that's left of you are your possessions."
"The Age of Glass followed the Stone Age as an evolutionary corrective, introducing into human relations a new sense of fragility that fostered compassion."
"The habit of moving our hands while we speak is left over from the language of gestures."
"There are times in a life when the most comfortable thing is to do is nothing at all. Things happen to you and you just let them happen."
"When you're a kid, they tell you it's all... Grow up, get a job, get married, get a house, have a kid, and that's it. But the truth is, the world is so much stranger than that. It's so much darker. And so much madder. And so much better."
"It wasn’t that she realized that love was all around her. It was that she realized that she could make it herself."
"He learned to live with the truth. Not to accept it, but to live with it. It was like living with an elephant. His room was tiny, and wherever he went, the elephant got in the way."
"The oldest emotion in the world may be that of being moved; but to describe it—just to name it—must have been like trying to catch something invisible."
"Even now, all possible feelings do not yet exist. There are still those that lie beyond our capacity and our imagination."
"So many words get lost. They leave the mouth and lose their courage, wandering aimlessly until they are swept into the gutter like dead leaves."
"Sometimes no length of string is long enough to say the thing that needs to be said."
"For the first time in as long as he could remember, he did not feel useless."
"If things go on like this, half of all species on earth will be gone in a hundred years."
"There are two types of people in the world: those who prefer to be sad among others, and those who prefer to be sad alone."
"It was like living with an elephant. His room was tiny, and every morning he had to squeeze around the truth just to get to the bathroom."
"After all, wasn’t this the real reason my cousin had taught me the trade? Show me a Jew that survives, he once said as I watched a lock give way in his hands, and I’ll show you a magician."
"I tried to think but it was hard. If Alma was in love with Mr. Mereminski or Mr. Moritz, how come I’d never met either of them, and how come they never called her like Herman or Misha?"
"The only person I really miss is Dad. Sometimes I get jealous of Alma because she knew Dad more than I did and can remember so much about him."
"Sometimes I forget that the world is not on the same schedule as I. That everything is not dying, or that if it is dying it will return to life, what with a little sun and the usual encouragement."
"Now that mine is almost over, I can say that the thing that struck me most about life is the capacity for change."
"There are so many ways to be alive, but only one way to be dead."
"Sometimes I thought about nothing and sometimes I thought about my life. At least I made a living. What kind of living? A living. I lived. It wasn’t easy. And yet. I found out how little is unbearable."
"I don’t know how long I’ve been sitting on this park bench. The light is almost all gone, but when there was light I was able to admire the statuary."
"And now, at the end of my life, I can barely tell the difference between what is real and what I believe."
"A hundred things can change your life. And for a few days, between the time I received the letter and the time I went to meet whoever had sent it, anything was possible."
"I stood in front of him. He barely seemed to notice. I said, 'My name is Alma.'"