

“all his prayers of the past had been simple concrete requests: God, give me a bicycle, a knife with seven blades, a box of oil paints. Only how, how, could you say something so indefinite, so meaningless as this: God, let me be loved.”
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“He loved her, he loved her, and until he'd loved her she had never minded being alone....”
― Summer Crossing
― Summer Crossing

“I loved her enough to forget myself, my self pitying despairs, and be content that something she thought happy was going to happen.”
― Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories
― Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories

“Yes: but aren't love and marriage notoriously synonymous in the minds of most women? Certainly very few men get the first without promising the second: love, that is--if it's just a matter of spreading her legs, almost any woman will do that for nothing.”
― Summer Crossing
― Summer Crossing
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