Favourite quotes from The World to Come 2020
"My heart is like a leaf, borne over a rock, by rapidly moving water"
"I felt, looking at her expression, as if she were in full sail on a flood tide, while I bobbed along down backwards"
"Every morning I wake up and I think that I never want to be far from you."
"And under your influence, since you're so good with words, I've composed a poem. It's entitled..."Oh, Sick and Miserable Heart, Be Still.""
"I love how our encircling feelings leave nothing out...for us to want or seek."
"We hold our friendship between us and study it, as if it were the incomplete map of our escape."
"When the day is done, my mind turns to her, and I think, with a special heat, "Why are we to be separated?""
"Bleary and short of breath from the laudanum... I wake weeping, retire weeping, stand before my duties weeping."
"I am a library without books, a sea of fear, agitation and want."
"It is your face I bear through the night. It is to you I devote a dreaming space before I turn myself to sleep, but there is no sleep. It's as if within me everything clamors for air, and I think if it's like this now, what will it be like later?"
"And do you know what memory it is that I most cherish? It's of you turning to me with that smile you gave me once you realized that you were loved."
"Well, then... It's a good thing we remember that our imaginations can always be cultivated."
