Their looks and personalities were still intact, but some thing had atrophied ever so slightly. Their faces bore the distinct wear of goals gone too long unfulfilled.
Galt NiederhofferIt was understood that they shared the same thresholds--the same inexhaustible appetite for wasting time, for discussing lofty ideas, for dissecting trivial things, for driving to nowhere in particular, for listening to music, for talking about books, for obsessing over pop culture, but mostly for laughing, talking, and simply being together. There was nothing one could say that the other would find too cruel or too kind. And on those rare occasions when they did tire of each other, they needed only go a day without talking before they yearned to reconnect.
Galt NiederhofferStichwörter: books music things ideas listening laughing wasting-time talking driving cruel together pop-culture kind nowhere trivial rare appetite thresholds understood obsessing discussing dissecting listening-to-music lofty occasions reconnect shared tire yearned
She was not brokenhearted because the relationship had ended suddenly; she was brokenhearted because it had never truly ended.
Galt NiederhofferStichwörter: relationship suddenly brokenhearted ended truly
And she had been in love enough times to rule out the possibility that this was merely some feat of nostalgia.
Galt NiederhofferStichwörter: love nostalgia possibility rule feat
If anything was, that the world will always--it can only--disappoint.
Galt NiederhofferStichwörter: world always disappoint
He began to view writing as a petty ambition, a frivolous and indulgent whim, creativity itself as the pathology of the very young or very stupid.
Galt NiederhofferIf something terrible happens to me, it's not my job to spare you from my pain.
Galt NiederhofferBetrayal lived in a separate realm than sex, a realm that was far more innocent, and far more erotic.
Galt NiederhofferThe sound of his voice was an overwhelming relief, like remembering the name of a beloved song or returning to a childhood haunt to find it totally unchanged. Did he not fee the same swell of relief? Or was he just better at hiding it?
Galt NiederhofferThe state of being lost, he seemed to imply, granted him a kind of freedom.
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