Essays In Love

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Imagine, of all impossible things, a young British Woody Allen with the benefit of a classical education and you have the nameless and exquisitely erudite narrator of Essays in Love. Essays in Love is a novel about two young people, who meet on an airplane between London and Paris and rapidly fall in love. We easily equate intimacy with a license — we care out of good intentions, we become judgmental of the false notes the other party shows, and ultimately, rosy beginnings end bloody.

I think when relationships don’t turn out the way you want them to, it’s so easy to go back into your shell and wallow. However, I also know, as Simon Spier says, that everyone deserves a love story and surely I’m not different. It is incredible deep and insightful, and impossible not to see some of yourself and your relationships in their story. I love you for who you are deep in your soul, not for the colour of your eyes or the length of your legs or the size of your chequebook.The oasis complex is never a complete delusion: the man in the desert does see something on the horizon.

The inability to live in the present lies in the fear of leaving the sheltered position of anticipation or memory, and so of admitting that this is the only life that one is ever likely (heavenly intervention aside) to live.

If someone thinks I am shy, I will probably end up shy, if someone thinks me funny, I am likely to keep cracking jokes. We would not love if there were no lack within us, but we are offended by the discovery of a similar lack in the other.