11 February 2008

the confessions of max tivoli

"it takes too much imagination to see the sorrows of people we take for happy. their real battles take place, like those of the stars, in some realm of light imperceptible to the human eye. it is a feat of the mind to guess another's heart"

"she could never link her life to mine; i could not even hope to have her as a friend; but it was not enough just to see her and know that so little had changed. despite all their fears, we ask very little of the ones who never loved us. we do not ask for sympathy or pain or compassion. we simply want to know why."

- the confessions of max tivoli by andrew sean greer

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