It was no longer her absence that wounded me, but my growing indifference to it. Forgetting, however calming, was also a reminder of infidelity to wh… - Alain de Botton

The more familiar two people become, the more the language they speak together departs from that of the ordinary, dictionary-defined discourse. Familiarity creates a new language, an in-house language of intimacy that carries reference to the story the two lovers are weaving together and that cannot be readily understood by others.

Our greatest furies spring from events which violate our sense of the ground of our existence.

The important books should be those that leave us wondering, with relief and gratitude, how the author could possibly have known so much about our lives.