The Intimacy Experiment
Rosie Danan
Top 10 Best Quotes
“One of the best things about love, real love, is that it doesn’t demand perfection. It simply invites us to live up to our potential.”
“What I’m trying to articulate, probably a little poorly, is that you’re precious,” Ethan said, “not in spite of, but because of all the ways you believe you’re broken.”
“She looked like the first meteor shower he’d ever seen—impossible and brilliant, so far away but somehow also right inside his chest.”
“I won’t forget that we kissed. Sorry”—Ethan tried to grin a little—“but you have to cut me some slack on that one. Because, I mean, come on, you’re you.” She nodded, not guilty at all. “But I promise not to think about it too much. I’ll save it for those really dark moments, when I look at everything wrong with the world and I feel helpless. When every good thing I’ve ever done, ever seen or heard about, pales against the garish human capacity for hate and corruption.” He bent forward quickly and kissed her cheek, lingering more than he should but less than he wanted to before pulling back.“I’ll think about it then, if it’s okay,” he said gently, “just for a few seconds, so I can remember what it was like to feel transcendent.”
“The tricky thing about grief,” his mom said, “is that even when we know it’s coming, we underestimate our own capacity for suffering”
“You do realize if this intimacy experiment doesn’t work, it means we’re failures both professionally and romantically?” “That’s not how science works. “Even when they fail, experiments move us closer to the truth.”
“Were men allowed to be so lovely?”
“For the first time in his life, he felt like he understood why dogs howled at the moon.”
“recalled a concept from the Jewish mystics—rishima—“the imprint an experience leaves.” They believed that if you endured something and let it pass without memory or reflection, if you didn’t change after having gone through it, it was as if the event had never happened. But if an experience left an imprint, if it inspired growth or altered the course of your life, then, according to the mystics, even the most painful and challenging experiences become a blessed teacher.”
“it all comes down to one simple question. What are you gonna let win—your love or your pain?”
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