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“ Inez and I had been in the same book club for a while. She once told me that literary theory was reading without imagination, and I’ve loved her ever since. ”

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A lack of narrative structure, as you know, will cause anxiety.

~ John Dufresne

We read novels because we need stories; we crave them; we can’t live without telling them and hearing them. Stories are how we make sense of our lives and of the world. When we’re distressed and go to therapy, our therapist’s job is to help us tell our story. Life doesn’t come with plots; it’s messy and chaotic; life is one damn, inexplicable thing after another. And we can’t have that. We insist on meaning. And so we tell stories so that our lives make sense.

~ John Dufresne

It wasn't that I wanted to know her now. I wanted to have already known her. I wanted her fears and her desires to have shaped my life. I know this is not love, of course. What it is is a queer feeling of nostalgia for an impossible future, for what can never be. That's fantasy. Love is different.

~ John Dufresne

You lose a wallet or keys or something and you notice in a second, but your life can go missing and you don't even know it.

~ John Dufresne