His was the kind of beauty for which you would pay the price of a lifetime of sorrow and all the varieties of rage. Eventually, you would have to go to church to get rid of him.
Charles BaxterI don't think that most women have to prove that they're real women. You live long enough, you graduate to being real.
Charles BaxterSavor the imminent weirdness of the day.
Charles BaxterOn the first floor near the foot of the stairs, we have placed on the wall an antique mirror so old that it can't reflect anything anymore. Its surface, worn down to nubbled grainy gray stubs, has lost one of its dimensions. like me, its glimmerless. You can't see into it now, just past it. Depth has been replace by texture. The mirror gives back nothing and makes no productive claim upon anyone. The mirror has been so completely worn away that you have to learn to live with what it refuses to do. That's its beauty.
Charles BaxterWhen you’re in love you don’t have to do a damn thing. You can just be. You can just stay quiet in the world. You don’t have to move an inch.
Charles BaxterShe has a winning smile. She wins, she always wins.
Charles BaxterMaking love to him was like going through a car wash, except you came out dirtier and more alive at the other end.
Charles BaxterLiterature is not an instruction manual.
Charles BaxterArt is not a sack race.
Charles BaxterTags: inspirational
As the poet says, all happy couples are alike, it's the unhappy ones who create the stories. I'm no longer a story. Happiness has made me fade into real life.
Charles BaxterTags: happiness
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