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Category: Nina George

…having a child is like casting off your own childhood forever. It’s as if it’s only then that you really grasp what it means to be a man. You’re scared too that all your weaknesses will be laid bare, because fatherhood demands more than you can give…. I always felt I had to earn your love, because I loved you so, so much.

fatherhood, parenting

It’s amazing how close you are to your essential self as a kid, he thought, and how far from it you drift the more you strive to be loved.

Tango is a truth drug. It lays bare your problems and your complexes, but also the strengths you hide from others so as not to vex them. It shows what a couple can be for each other, how they can listen to each other. People who only want to listen to themselves will hate tango.

listening, tango

Asking questions is an art.

A surprise visit? That’s so romantic…but fairly risky.” “If you don’t take any risks, life will bass you by,” Cunco shipped in.

All right,” she said. “Give me the books that are kind to me, and to hell with the men who don’t give a damn about me.

books-reading, comfort

Books aren’t eggs, you know. Simply because a book has aged a bit doesn’t mean it’s gone bad.” There was now an edge to Monsieur Perdu’s voice too. “What is wrong with old? Age isn’t a disease. We all grow old, even books. But are you, is anyone, worth less, or less important, because they’ve been around for longer?

aging, monsieur-perdu, old-books

I have already lived long enough, Manon had written in late autumn, on an autumn day like today. I have lived and loved, I have had the best of this world. Why cry over the ending? Why cling to what remains? The advantage of dying is that you stop being afraid of it. There is a sense of peacefulness too.

dying, peacefulness

And yes, being lovesick is like being in mourning. Because you die, because your future dies and you with it…There is a hurting time. It lasts for so long. But it gets better. I know that now.

breakup, grief, heartbreak, love, lovesick

The radiance of this beautiful scene shed a cruel light on every past horror, every insult tolerated, every unspoken retort, every gesture of rejection. Marianne was grieving, and her boundless grief made her regret every moment of cowardice in her life.

There are women who only look at another woman’s shoes and never at her face.And others who always look women in the face and only occasionally at their shoes.

appearances, faces, real-faces, real-people, shallow, shoes, women

[Women] are superior beings to us men. When they love us, then they are being gracious, for only rarely do we give them reason to love us. I learned that from your mother, and she’s right. Sad to say, she’s right.