aseaofquotes:

Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“it’s what achille learnt under the dark ceiling / of sea-grapes dripping with rain that puckered the sand: / that there is no error in love, of feeling / the wrong love for the wrong person.”

aseaofquotes:

— Francois de la Rochefoucauld

Joyce Carol Oates, Little Bird of Heaven

i’m not sure this is true. i can see how sometimes loving an idea is more satisfying than the tangible person, but how can you feel close to someone who knows nothing about you? nothing of the way you think, nothing of your interests and habits, nothing of what you like in a person? how lonely to love someone who doesn’t know you, and likewise, a person you know nothing of. 

aseaofquotes:

F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby