Quotes I ❤ from a book I ❤

Romantic, elegant, wistful, they’re snapshots of this favourite of mine, the memoir of an old girlfriend of John Kennedy, Jr.

photo is author’s own

Come to the Edge is a gorgeous memoir, and it deserves to be better known. Christina Haag writes movingly of her time with JFK Jr. I wrote more about the book here:

Love, Loss, and What She Wrote

I did not know how long it took to get over such a love, and that even when you did, when you loved again, you would always carry a sliver of it in your stitched-together heart.

No matter how many times you fall in love, it always comes at you sideways. It always catches you by surprise.

Bradley Whitford was from Wisconsin and he was irresistible. Lanky, sweet, and original, he was blessed with a rapier wit, but more lethal to me were his gifts as an actor. I had never gone out with an actor before, and our fights were frequent and passionate. (…) They were also over quickly. After one stormy argument in Sheep’s Meadow, he carved our names in a park bench near Tavern on the Green; and when he when he played Astrov, or as Orlando, gushed, “But heavenly Rosalind!” I hoped he…