Amy Bloom quotes

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

Love at first sight is easy to understand; it's when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle.

Amy Bloom

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.

Amy Bloom

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

Amy Bloom

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.

Amy Bloom

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.

Amy Bloom

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

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

Amy Bloom

A blind man can see how much I love you.

Amy Bloom

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

Amy Bloom

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. (Amy Bloom)

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.

Amy Bloom

My writing process, such as it is, consists of a lot of noodling, procrastinating, dawdling, and avoiding.

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I do not say what I feel, and people often take that for shyness, even kindness.

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

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

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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.

Amy Bloom

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

Amy Bloom

I'm a grown woman. I can come up with plenty of things that I've done and said or didn't say or failed to do that remain with me as sources of embarrassment.

Amy Bloom

I think the most important thing in the world is being brave. I'd rathe be brave than beautiful. Hell, I'd settle for acting brave.

Amy Bloom

I think the impulse to get to the heart of the story and to tell it well is in my genes. (Amy Bloom)

My family kept its history to itself. On the plus side, I didn't have to hear nightmarish stories about the Holocaust, the pogroms, terrible illnesses, painful deaths. My elderly parents never even spoke about their ailments.

Amy Bloom

My father would have been spectacularly ill-suited to working for an institution of any kind, and I suspect that, to a lesser degree, that's true of me, too.

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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.

Amy Bloom

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.

Amy Bloom

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