We are each the love of someone's life.

- Andrew Sean Greer

Surely words are just the background music when passion pounces on a soul.

- Andrew Sean Greer

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 o…

- Andrew Sean Greer

Some things are so impossible, so fantastic, that when they happen, you are not at all surprised. Their sheer impossibility has made you imagine them…

- Andrew Sean Greer

The possibilities. Is there any greater pain to know what could be, and yet be powerless to make it be?

- Andrew Sean Greer

When you were a little girl, Madam.....was this the woman you dreamed of becoming?

- Andrew Sean Greer

It may be a childish torment, but we do not get to choose our demons.

- Andrew Sean Greer

Does love always form, like a pearl, around the hardened bits of life?

- Andrew Sean Greer

No one would have known, from how he held my hand, [that] over the years of heartache he had hatched a plot to change my life forever. He held his gr…

- Andrew Sean Greer