"Sometimes when I miss you, I feel sad the same way, like my whole life has been rushing toward you and I can't wait for us to be together."
Gary Shteyngart
from Super Sad True Love Story
Sunday, August 21, 2011
60.
"Beyond the mountains, according to the old Korean proverb...were more mountains. We'd only just begun."
Gary Shteyngart
from Super Sad True Love Story
Gary Shteyngart
from Super Sad True Love Story
59.
"Soon you will be home and in my arms and the world will reconfigure itself around you and there will be enough compassion for you to feel scared by how much I care for you."
Gary Shteyngart
from Super Sad True Love Story
Gary Shteyngart
from Super Sad True Love Story
58.
"...her voice [was] like nothing I had heard before, a shouted whisper on its way to becoming a plea."
Gary Shteyngart
from Super Sad True Love Story
Gary Shteyngart
from Super Sad True Love Story
57.
"...I prefer the wintertime, when all is dead around me, and nothing buds, and the truth of eternity, so cold and dark, is revealed to the unfortunate acolytes of reality."
Gary Shteyngart
from Super Sad True Love Story
Gary Shteyngart
from Super Sad True Love Story
56.
"The love I felt for her on that train ride had a capital and provinces, parishes and a Vatican, an orange planet and many sullen moons - it was systemic and it was complete."
Gary Shteyngart
from Super Sad True Love Story
Gary Shteyngart
from Super Sad True Love Story
55.
"I gave him a photocopy of who I was, without telling him that I was unhappy and humiliated and often, just like him, alone."
Gary Shteyngart
from Super Sad True Love Story
Gary Shteyngart
from Super Sad True Love Story
54.
"The train was pulling out of the station and I was running behind it, my suitcase half open, white underwear spilling comically along the platform."
Gary Shteyngart
from Super Sad True Love Story
Gary Shteyngart
from Super Sad True Love Story
Tuesday, August 2, 2011
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