The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells
Andrew Sean Greer
Top 10 Best Quotes
“So tell me gentleman, tell me the time and place where it was easy to be a woman.”
“When you were a little girl, Madam.....was this the woman you dreamed of becoming?”
“I knew that not all lives are equal, that the time we live in affects the person we are, more than I had ever thought. Some have a harder chance. Some get no chance at all. With great sadness, I saw so many people born in the wrong time to be happy.”
“And finally: Who are we when we’re not ourselves?”
“There is a truth that everyone knows but you. Each of us has it; no one is immune. Not a secret, not a scandal, but something simple and obvious to everyone else. It can be as simple as losing weight, or as difficult as leaving a husband. How awful, to sense that everybody knows the thing that would change your life, and yet no one is friend enough to tell you! You are left to guess, all by yourself. Until that moment comes when it reveals itself to you, and of course this revelation always comes a moment too late.”
“The possibilities. Is there any greater pain to know what could be, and yet be powerless to make it be?”
“Who on earth would not long to be fought for? Is this not the very heart of human existence, to be worth fighting for, worth losing everything for?”
“Why is it so impossible to believe: that we are as many headed as monsters, as many armed as gods, as many hearted as angels?”
“Lovers don't leave if there's any hope at all.”
“I understand that it wasn't that you didnt want to be with me anymore, but you didn't want to be yourself anymore, the one you were with me.”
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Book Keywords:
who-we-are, possibilities, chauvinism, misogyny, womanhood, times, feminism, reality-check, pain
