Top 46 Andrew Sean Greer Quotes
#1. I understand that it wasn't that you didnt want to be with me anymore, but you didn't want to be yourself anymore, the one you were with me.
Andrew Sean Greer
#2. It may be a childish torment, but we do not get to choose our demons.
Andrew Sean Greer
#3. For me, the historical and genealogical library is the one I use. I'm working on, I'll say, it's a time travel novel. I haven't written very much of it. That's the dirty secret of the Cullman center: The writers don't write their fiction there, they just do their research.
Andrew Sean Greer
#4. It's just that, you know how it is in some relationships, how one of them is a little more in love. Well, it's like that with friendships. Sometimes one of them thinks they're really close, closer than they are. And the other doesn't feel that way.
Andrew Sean Greer
#5. Young people are inept at love; it is like being given a flying machine, and you leap inside, ready to set off as you've always dreamed, yet you don't have the first notion of how to make it start, much less how to make it move.
Andrew Sean Greer
#6. It is a brave and stupid thing, a beautiful thing, to waste one's life for love.
Andrew Sean Greer
#8. When I meet a woman whose energy falters at the first barrier,she seems to fade beside my mother.
Andrew Sean Greer
#9. Some accidental frequency in the siren had lit a gene like a flare in their rib cages, freeing them - for what greater freedom could there be than to forget your home?
Andrew Sean Greer
#10. We think we know people, and dismiss the scenes as aberrations, as the lightning strikes of madness, but surely we are wrong. Surely these are the truest moments of their lives.
Andrew Sean Greer
#11. Women must be careful what we say to one another. We are almost all we have.
Andrew Sean Greer
#12. Why is it so impossible to believe: that we are as many headed as monsters, as many armed as gods, as many hearted as angels?
Andrew Sean Greer
#13. So tell me gentleman, tell me the time and place where it was easy to be a woman.
Andrew Sean Greer
#14. Meaning his stuffed bear who was as real to him as his mother or me. Or else as imaginary.
Andrew Sean Greer
#15. I knew that not all lives are equal, that the time we live in affects the person we are, more than I had ever thought. Some have a harder chance. Some get no chance at all. With great sadness, I saw so many people born in the wrong time to be happy.
Andrew Sean Greer
#16. It is almost another kind of love, being loved. It is the same heat but from another room; it is the same sound but from a high window ...
Andrew Sean Greer
#17. For is my story really so unusual? To wake each morning as if things had gone differently
the dead come back, the lost returned, the beloved in our arms
is it really any more magic than the ordinary madness of hope?
Andrew Sean Greer
#18. It takes too much imagination to see the sorrows of people we take for happy. Their real battles take place, like those of the stars, in some realm of light imperceptible to the human eye. It is a feat of the mind to guess another's heart.
Andrew Sean Greer
#19. Who on earth would not long to be fought for? Is this not the very heart of human existence, to be worth fighting for, worth losing everything for?
Andrew Sean Greer
#20. I love going to writers' colonies in pastoral settings where there's nothing to do, but either walk around or read a book or work on your book.
Andrew Sean Greer
#22. As the Japanese will tell you, one can train a rose to grow through anything, to grow through a nautilus even, but it must be done with tenderness.
Andrew Sean Greer
#23. It turns out that you don't end up with the people you love; by definition, you end up with the ones who stay.
Andrew Sean Greer
#24. What magnetic force draws us to scenes of pain, and words that wound us? You have seen this, I told myself as I marched along to that apartment. You have seen this already, you've lived through this, spare yourself
Andrew Sean Greer
#27. Does love always form, like a pearl, around the hardened bits of life?
Andrew Sean Greer
#28. Despite all their fears, we ask very little of the ones who never loved us. We do not ask for sympathy or pain or compassion. We simply want to know why.
Andrew Sean Greer
#30. I do not know what joins the parts of an atom, but it seems what
Andrew Sean Greer
#31. Surely words are just the background music when passion pounces on a soul.
Andrew Sean Greer
#32. Just one small thing had changed, such a small thing really. What difference could it make, the era in which we are born?
Andrew Sean Greer
#33. How often in life do people make that awful sacrifice, that murder of possibilities?
Andrew Sean Greer
#34. No one would have known, from how he held my hand, [that] over the years of heartache he had hatched a plot to change my life forever. He held his grip and would not let me go. I do not know what joins the parts of an atom, but it seems what binds one human to another is pain.
Andrew Sean Greer
#35. How hollow to have no secrets left; you shake yourself and nothing rattles. You're boneless as an anemone.
Andrew Sean Greer
#36. The shock was akin to that of buying, out of duty, a novel written by a dull and uninspired acquaintance and finding there passages of heartrending beauty and rapture that one could never imagine coming from such a tedious person.
Andrew Sean Greer
#37. Change was not something you waited for, quietly, mutely, in a house by the ocean, nothing would ever change unless we forced it into shape.
Andrew Sean Greer
#38. Grief will go
it always does
but not before it forces us to do these absurd things, and hurt ourselves, and bring on suffering, because grief, that parasite, above all else does not want to die, and only in these terrible moments it creates can it feel itself thrashing back to life.
Andrew Sean Greer
#39. How remarkable we are in our ability to hide things from ourselves - our conscious minds only a small portion of our actual minds, jellyfish floating on a vast dark sea of knowing and deciding.
Andrew Sean Greer
#40. When you were a little girl, Madam ... was this the woman you dreamed of becoming?
Andrew Sean Greer
#42. We kept each other's stare a long time, for we had each done a startling thing, dodged time for an instant - which is the only definition of happiness I know.
Andrew Sean Greer
#45. It's so unlikely to be alive, isn't it? The right temperature, and gravity, the right atoms combining at the precise right moment, you'd think it would never happen.
Andrew Sean Greer
#46. The possibilities. Is there any greater pain to know what could be, and yet be powerless to make it be?
Andrew Sean Greer
Famous Authors
Popular Topics
Scroll to Top
