Single Quotes

That’s why I called it Dangerously In Love. It’s basically all of the steps in a relationship from when you first meet a guy to realizing you’re interested to dancing with him the first night to thinking that you’re in love to realizing that you’re now a little open to making love to breaking up to having to love yourself after the breakup. All of that. A celebration of love.

It’s like this,” he’d explained once to Connie. “If someone gave you a single rose, you’d be happy, right?” “Okay,” he went on, “Now imagine someone gives you ten thousand roses.” “That is a whole lotta roses,” she said. “That’s too much.” “Right. Too much. But more than that, it makes each individual rose much less special, right? It makes it hard to pick one out and say, ‘That’s the good one.’ And it makes you want to just get rid of them all because none of them seem special now.” Connie had narrowed her eyes. “Are you saying when you’re at school you just want to get rid of everyone?

In civilized places idleness, once the prerequisite for abstract thought, poetry, religion, philosophy, and falling in love, has become a character flaw. In America we’ve managed to stamp it out almost completely, and few people under forty can remember a single moment of it, even in earliest childhood. The phrase ‘spare time’ has vanished from the land.

Living like that utterly convinced me of the extreme limitations of language. I was just a chlld then,so I have only an intuitive understanding of the degree to which one losses control of words once they are spoken or written. It was then that I first felt a deep curiosity about language, and understood it as a tool that encompasses both a single moment and eternity