The Versions of Us
Laura Barnett
Top 10 Best Quotes
“People bear loneliness every day. They think they won't be able to, that they won't survive, but somehow one second slips into another, becomes an hour, a day, a week, and they are still living. They are still alone, even in the middle of a crowd of people. Even with a partner, a child.”
“You walked into my life when I was nineteen years old. You were the only man I ever loved - the only man I ever hope to love. You took everything we did together, everything we were to each other, and scorched it to nothing: left it a cloud of ash.”
“But life is for living, isn't it? We all have to find some way to carry on.”
“He stands for a moment before opening the studio door, looking down at the beach, flooded with a disorienting happiness; and he savours it, drinks it in, because he is old enough now to know happiness for what it is: brief and fleeting, not a state to strive for, to seek to live in, but to catch when it comes, and to hold on to for as long as you can.”
“The awful truth was that Jim was happy: not in some bland, superficial way - fixed Kodak smiles under the bluest of skies - but in his deepest self. This kind of happiness was less a state, he realised, than a form of honesty: a sense of essential rightness.”
“Now do you understand,' he said, 'you were with me all along?”
“And then they walk away together, out of the allotted grooves of their afternoons and into the thickening shadows of evening, into the dim, liminal place where on path is taken, and another missed.”
“What would my life have been without you?”
“That's what marriage is, isn't it? Taking the rough with the smooth. At least, that's what it should be.”
“But then he'd lived long enough to understand the futility of expecting anything at all”
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Book Keywords:
young-love, love, loneliness, life, relationships, marriage, expectation, heartbreak
