Quotes by Susan Minot

Susan Minot

…[She] felt as if she were both a stranger to herself and more herself than she’d ever been.

Felt

Ifs

Stranger

…it occurred to her how some people continued through no design of one’s own to be in one’s life while others might initially enter in a sort of blaze and seem to change everything but then might not stay around.

Design

Might

People

[The director’s idea for the film was:] A young American or English girl goes to Tuscany to visit English expatriates. She is on a mission to lose her virginity. That’s a mission easily accomplished, if that’s the only mission. The story had to be more complicated than that. Because there is so little happening dramatically, there had to be something to keep you curious.

Directors

Girl

Ideas

A struggle, to the person experiencing it, is a struggle.

Persons

Struggle

After she was gone there would be no one who knew the whole of her life. She did not even know the whole of it! Perhaps she should have written some of it down…but really what would have been the point in that? Everything passed, she would too. This perspective offered her an unexpected clarity she nearly enjoyed, but even with this new clarity the world offered no more explanation for itself than it ever had.

Perspective

Should Have

Would Be

After the briskness of loving, loving stops. And you roll over with death stretched out alongside you like a feather boa, or a snake, light as air, and you… you don’t even ask for anything or try to say something to him because it’s obviously your own damn fault. You haven’t been able to- to what? To open your heart. You open your legs but can’t, or don’t dare anymore, to open your heart.

Heart

Light

Snakes

Between children and parents there is a difficulty of seeing each other simply as people.

Children

Parent

People

Boy poison – a boy’s kisses were like a poison, which infected you and after you were exposed you craved more, like an addict.

Boys

Kissing

Poison

Change and renewal are themes in life, arent they? We keep growing throughout life.

Growing

Renewal

Theme

Desire suppressed finds its way into other more surreal settings, into dreams.

Desire

Dream

Way

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Dream

Eye

Fallen

Felt

Film

Girl

Growing

Heart

Honor

Hurt

Ideas

Ifs

Illness

Kindness

Kissing

Light

Littles

Looks

Love Is

Love You

Might

Miracle

Months

Moving

Opposites

Pain

Painting

Parent

People

Persons

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Poison

Powerful

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Running

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Quotes by Susan Minot

Susan Minot

…[She] felt as if she were both a stranger to herself and more herself than she’d ever been.

…it occurred to her how some people continued through no design of one’s own to be in one’s life while others might initially enter in a sort of blaze and seem to change everything but then might not stay around.

A struggle, to the person experiencing it, is a struggle.

Between children and parents there is a difficulty of seeing each other simply as people.

Boy poison – a boy’s kisses were like a poison, which infected you and after you were exposed you craved more, like an addict.

Change and renewal are themes in life, arent they? We keep growing throughout life.

Desire suppressed finds its way into other more surreal settings, into dreams.

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