Andrew Sean Greer Quotes

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.

When I meet a woman whose energy falters at the first barrier,she seems to fade beside my mother.

It turns out that you don't end up with the people you love; by definition, you end up with the ones who stay.

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.

The possibilities. Is there any greater pain to know what could be, and yet be powerless to make it be?

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.