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“It never really goes away, the longing for the life not lived, because isn't that part of how we come to know ourselves too? Through what we lack as much as what we have, all we dream but do not hold. Some desires have no resolution.”

Desire Loss Acceptance

Book:Thirst for Salt

Source: Thirst for Salt

“What continues to surprise me, and what I still don't understand, is not the reason that love ends but the way that it endures.”

Love Loss Grief

Book:Thirst for Salt

Source: Thirst for Salt

“In this way my love for him mirrored my mother's love for my father, which, despite their separation, had endured--call it habit, call it time, call it memory, the memory of love. It's not so easy, after wall, to cut that invisible thread.”

Love Loss Grief Breakup

Book:Thirst for Salt

Source: Thirst for Salt

“We are taught that love is not so different from hatred, that instead of opposites, the two extremes of the human heart might in fact be twins. But it's grief, really, that is love's twin, that knows no bounds of time or space. Wave after wave it keeps coming, whereas hatred cools, fades. So many times I swore that I loved Jude, that no one had ever loved or been loved this way before, and then something broke through, a new depth. Colder and darker moved the waters of my love. Thinking, in those first few days after, of something [my mother] once sad: There is no end to grief, because there is no end to love.”

Love Loss Grief

Book:Thirst for Salt

Source: Thirst for Salt

“Do you still love Jude? I think a part of me always will. It always feels that way at first, she said. But it will stop. I promise. And I didn't know then if that was better, if I even wanted it to. At the time, that seemed to be like the saddest thing.”

Loss Grief Breakup

Book:Thirst for Salt

Source: Thirst for Salt

“What I remember is that one morning, she was gone. I'm not sure for how long, for time in the absence of someone you love cannot be measured in the same way as regular time.”

Loss Grief

Book:Thirst for Salt

Source: Thirst for Salt

“I am trying to leave a man I still love, or I am trying to stop loving a man I have left. In one of these I had succeeded, but as I lay awake, it was hard to tell in which.”

Love Loss Grief Breakup

Book:Thirst for Salt

Source: Thirst for Salt

“As if it were possible to circumnavigate memory.”

Love Relationships Loss Breakup

Book:Thirst for Salt

Source: Thirst for Salt

“I can see that what I am doing here, sitting at my grandmother's writing desk in my mother's spare room, is trying to create my own portrait of the man I'd known thirteen years ago.”

Love Relationships Loss Melancholy

Book:Thirst for Salt

Source: Thirst for Salt

“But that night, listening to the swell music, Patsy Cline's voice strained with sorrow, I thought. She's got these little things, I've got you. Wrapping my arts around Jude's waist. In that moment, I felt so lucky I thought I might die. The only way I can understand this now is that what I was feeling, standing in his kitchen all those years ago, was a presentiment of loss.”

Love Relationships Loss Breakup Age Difference

Book:Thirst for Salt

Source: Thirst for Salt

“Age, I realized, could not account for the depth of one's experience. I was sure she had never experienced that kind of loss, for she would not have spoken of it so lightly if she had.”

Age Loss Experience

Book:Thirst for Salt

Source: Thirst for Salt