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[paperbacksunday]

I would survive this easily enough, of course, and grow indifferent, and soon learn to squelch every excess of regret. For heartache, like love, like low-grade fevers, like the longing to reach out and touch a hand across the table, is easy enough to live down.

André Aciman, Enigma Variations

[paperbacksunday]

When she continued to stare at me with that bold, inquisitive gaze that lingered on me as though she had more warmth in her heart than she wished to show, I knew what had rippled between was a disquieting instant of awkwardness and of opportunity lost.

André Aciman, Enigma Variations

[paperbacksunday]

I loved the way she’d say one thing, then sidle up to its opposite, because this unabashed tossing and turning with herself promised spellbinding fireside chats in some beloved, cozy corner of our invention.

André Aciman, Enigma Variations