Jill Alexander Essbaum said this quote

Anna’s conclusions were these: That fire is beautifully cruel. That fusion occurs only at a specific heat. That blood, in fact, can boil. That the dissolution of an affair is an entropic reaction, and the disorder it tends toward is flammable. That a heart will burn. And burn and burn and burn.

~ Jill Alexander Essbaum

Anna loved and didn’t love sex. Anna needed and didn’t need it. Her relationship with sex was a convoluted partnership that rose from both her passivity and an unassailable desire to be distracted.

~ Jill Alexander Essbaum

It doesn’t matter whether you believe in ghosts. The ghosts believe in you.

~ Jill Alexander Essbaum

Is that not always the case? Given any two people in a relationship, one will always love more, the other less. Right?

~ Jill Alexander Essbaum