Quotes for All
You don’t need to be seeing someone to be in love with her. You can have lost touch with her, she can have hurt you, even inexplicably. If you ever felt that you really knew her and that it was what you knew that you loved, and if you remember what it was you once … Read more
Being an insomniac only slows me down. I try not to write at night, as I’m concerned that this will affect the quality. Elliot Perlman
When you’re younger, you tend to be reckless about trying to find out who you are and what you can do and should do. But as you get older you become more accepting of yourself, and with that comes greater contentment. Elliot Perlman
You would love the way he sees you. He uses you as a weapon against himself and not merely because you did Elliot Perlman
Listen- all that she was then, all that she is now, those gestures, everything I remember but won’t or can’t articulate anymore, the perfect words that are somehow made imperfect when used to describe her and all that should remain unsaid about her- it is all unsupported by reason. I know that. But that enigmatic … Read more
You were trying to tell me something and I was trying to tell you something else. We didn’t trust each other and that was reason enough to make each of us right. Elliot Perlman
There’s the ambiguity of human relationships, for instance. A relationship between two people, just like a sequence of words, is ambiguous if it is open to different interpretations. And if two people do have differing views about their relationship – I don’t just mean about its state, I mean about its very nature – then … Read more
As my name might suggest, I’m Jewish. My grandparents were Polish and Russian Jews who came to Australia in the late 1920s, and had they not, we wouldn’t be talking now. Elliot Perlman
[Memory] visits when it is hungry, not when you are. Elliot Perlman
He sits in his car at traffic lights on his way out sometimes and tries to estimate how many times he has sat here, waiting at these traffic lights on his way somewhere without you, hoping to meet someone with the capacity to consign you to an anecdote, to be eventually confused with others Elliot … Read more