Amy Bloom Quotes

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Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.

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Marriage, Love You, Long

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You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.

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Beauty, Beautiful, Sexy

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The library is every child's lighthouse. It is every person's
sanctuary. It is every town and county's fortress in the face of
ignorance, intrusion and bad behavior.

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Children, Ignorance, Library

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Some people are your family no matter when you find them, and some people are not, even if you are laid, still wet and crumpled, in their arms.

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People, Arms, Matter

Amy Bloom (2010). “Love Invents Us”, p.198, Vintage

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Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.

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Knowing Who You Are, Intimacy, Persons

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Everyone has two memories. The one you can tell and the one that is stuck to the underside of that, the dark, tarry smear of what happened.

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Memories, Dark, Two

Amy Bloom (2007). “Away: A Novel”, p.44, Random House

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It takes something to get married: nerve, hope, a strong desire to make a certain statement - and it takes something to stay married: more hope, determination, a sense of humor, and needs that are best met by being in a pair.

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Strong, Determination, Desire

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Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.

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Men, Men And Women

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Be real and unashamed. Even of your faults.

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Real, Being Real, Faults

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Boundaries are the lines we draw that mark off our autonomy and that of other people, that protect our privacy and that of others. Boundaries allow for intimate connection without dissolving or losing one's sense of self.

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Self, People, Lines

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In a true partnership, the kind worth striving for, the kind worth insisting on, and even, frankly, worth divorcing over, both people try to give as much or even a little more than they get. 'Deserves' is not the point. And 'owes' is certainly not the point. The point is to make the other person as happy as we can, because their happiness adds to ours. The point is -- in the right hands, everything that you give, you get.

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Hands, People, Giving

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Aging is a chance to make what was good, great, and what was never so good, better...

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Chance, Aging

"How to Have (Better) Sex As You Get Older" by Amy Bloom, www.oprah.com. May 2013.

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It is a wonderful, moving, heart-filling experience to sit with the man or woman you love and your beloved children and know that all are happy to be just where they are with each other and loving one another. This doesnt happen very often.

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Children, Moving, Heart

Amy Bloom (2010). “Where the God of Love Hangs Out: Fiction”, p.223, Random House

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Learning to listen, letting people finish their sentences, and most of all, the habit of noticing the difference between what people say and how they say it. {on the habits of psychoanalytic training and practice applied to fiction writing} The gap between what people tell you and what's really going on is what interests me.

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Writing, Practice, Differences

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Bad people doing bad things is not interesting. What I find interesting is good people doing bad things.

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People, Interesting, Bad Things

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Men do not know what they do not know, and women should not tell them.

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Men, Should, Knows

Amy Bloom (2010). “Love Invents Us”, p.29, Vintage

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Great sex is not a pleasant soak in the tub, with the scented candle burning. Great sex is more like a bomb exploding inside your right mind.

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Sex, Mind, Burning

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And sometimes we cling because the memory is so painful that we can't stop visiting it and hoping to make it come out differently. The risk of letting go is that we have to confront our own selves and our own possibilities.

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Letting Go, Memories, Grief

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A blind man can see how much I love you

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Love You, Men, Blind

Amy Bloom (2003). “Normal: Transsexual CEOs, Crossdressing Cops, and Hermaphrodites with Attitude”, Vintage

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You cannot fake effort; talent is great, but perseverance is necessary.

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Perseverance, Fake, Effort

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The past is a candle at great distance: too close to let you quit, too far to comfort you.

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Distance, Past, Comfort

Amy Bloom (2007). “Away: A Novel”, p.186, Random House

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To hold happiness is to hold the understanding that the world passes away from us, that the petals fall and the beloved dies. No amount of mockery, no amount of fashionable scowling will keep any of us from knowing and savoring the pleasure of the sun on our faces or save us from the adult understanding that it cannot last forever.

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Fall, Knowing, Forever

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they danced as though they'd been waiting all their lives for each song.

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Song, Waiting

Amy Bloom (2015). “Rowing to Eden: Collected Stories”, p.10, Granta Books

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There is no such thing as a good writer and a bad liar.

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Liars, Writing, Good Writers

Amy Bloom (2013). “A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You”, p.86, Pan Macmillan

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I am interested in the gaps between one piece of sidewalk and the next. I am interested in the things for which we dont always have a name, and the things that are not easy to articulate - the difference between what we think and how we feel.

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Thinking, Names, Differences

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