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Top 60 Amy Bloom Quotes (2025 Update)
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Amy Bloom Quote: “We protected America from what happened, like a man takes care of his wife. The man doesn’t mind when she closes her eyes at the scary part of the ride, of the movie. He loves her for that sweet, willful ignorance. She gives him something to protect, a nice world in which bad things don’t happen. It’s a pleasure, and a relief, to keep that ignorance intact, even as it comes between them.”

51. “We protected America from what happened, like a man takes care of his wife. The man doesn’t mind when she closes her eyes at the scary part of the ride, of the movie. He loves her for that sweet, willful ignorance. She gives him something to protect, a nice world in which bad things don’t happen. It’s a pleasure, and a relief, to keep that ignorance intact, even as it comes between them.”

Amy Bloom Quote: “But in the morning everything can, and must, be seen. Daylight takes us; it peels us like fruit.”

52. “But in the morning everything can, and must, be seen. Daylight takes us; it peels us like fruit.”

Amy Bloom Quote: “We finished off a small pie and when we got home I washed the tomato sauce out of her hair, which I had expected, but also out of her underwear, which I think must be the sign that you have really, really enjoyed your lunch.”

53. “We finished off a small pie and when we got home I washed the tomato sauce out of her hair, which I had expected, but also out of her underwear, which I think must be the sign that you have really, really enjoyed your lunch.”

Amy Bloom Quote: “I couldn’t ask her anything. There wasn’t a single question to which I’d get the answer I wanted.”

54. “I couldn’t ask her anything. There wasn’t a single question to which I’d get the answer I wanted.”

Amy Bloom Quote: “I don’t think people can help it. We play with fire and tell ourselves we’re just lighting a modest, necessary candle. We know discretion is called for and everything in us cries out to be seen, to spread our feathers.”

55. “I don’t think people can help it. We play with fire and tell ourselves we’re just lighting a modest, necessary candle. We know discretion is called for and everything in us cries out to be seen, to spread our feathers.”

Amy Bloom Quote: “We were determined to be the people we wanted to be and not the blind, desperate people we were.”

56. “We were determined to be the people we wanted to be and not the blind, desperate people we were.”

Amy Bloom Quote: “Mrs. Vandor said, with her eyes closed, I wouldn’t make that kind of thing a habit. One wishes to be useful, but not indispensably so.”

57. “Mrs. Vandor said, with her eyes closed, I wouldn’t make that kind of thing a habit. One wishes to be useful, but not indispensably so.”

Amy Bloom Quote: “I had gotten used to the idea that people lived and you loved them, or didn’t, and then they died and you were bound to miss them, often even if you didn’t love them.”

58. “I had gotten used to the idea that people lived and you loved them, or didn’t, and then they died and you were bound to miss them, often even if you didn’t love them.”

Amy Bloom Quote: “We love the attentiveness of powerful people, because it’s such a pleasant, gratifying surprise, but Eleanor was not a grand light shining briefly on the lucky little people. She reached for the soul of everyone who spoke to her, every day. She bowed her head toward yours, as if there was nothing but the time and necessary space for two people to briefly love each other.”

59. “We love the attentiveness of powerful people, because it’s such a pleasant, gratifying surprise, but Eleanor was not a grand light shining briefly on the lucky little people. She reached for the soul of everyone who spoke to her, every day. She bowed her head toward yours, as if there was nothing but the time and necessary space for two people to briefly love each other.”

Amy Bloom Quote: “She didn’t believe, ever, that Jesus was going to deliver her to anything, anywhere. She said she absolutely did not believe that after two thousand years a white man was going to come back from his own lynching to help out Clara Williams or take her hand or be her friend.”

60. “She didn’t believe, ever, that Jesus was going to deliver her to anything, anywhere. She said she absolutely did not believe that after two thousand years a white man was going to come back from his own lynching to help out Clara Williams or take her hand or be her friend.”

Amy Bloom Quote: “She believes in will. It is so frail and delicate at night that she can’t even imagine the next morning, but it is so wide and binding by the middle of the next day that she cannot even remember the terrible night. It is as if she gives birth every day.”

61. “She believes in will. It is so frail and delicate at night that she can’t even imagine the next morning, but it is so wide and binding by the middle of the next day that she cannot even remember the terrible night. It is as if she gives birth every day.”

Amy Bloom Quote: “Carny people’d punch you in the face before they’d let you tell them your troubles and strangle their own selves before they’d tell you theirs.”

62. “Carny people’d punch you in the face before they’d let you tell them your troubles and strangle their own selves before they’d tell you theirs.”

Amy Bloom Quote: “I don’t want to end my life, he said, but I’d rather end it while I am still myself, rather than become less and less of a person.”

63. “I don’t want to end my life, he said, but I’d rather end it while I am still myself, rather than become less and less of a person.”

Amy Bloom Quote: “We had agreed that “in love” had burned out after four years for us, the way it does for most of us, in two months or two years and, I guess, never for some lucky people. Instead of a trail of fire roaring through, those people get small candles steadily lighting the way home until death do they part, and only the young are stupid enough to think that those two old people, him gimping, her squinting, are not in love.”

64. “We had agreed that “in love” had burned out after four years for us, the way it does for most of us, in two months or two years and, I guess, never for some lucky people. Instead of a trail of fire roaring through, those people get small candles steadily lighting the way home until death do they part, and only the young are stupid enough to think that those two old people, him gimping, her squinting, are not in love.”

Amy Bloom Quote: “His charm and cheer blinded you, made you deaf to your own thoughts, until all you could do was nod and smile, while the frost came down, killing you where you stood.”

65. “His charm and cheer blinded you, made you deaf to your own thoughts, until all you could do was nod and smile, while the frost came down, killing you where you stood.”

Amy Bloom Quote: “But I know who you should be with. You should be with a guy who doesn’t mind that you’re smarter than he is, who doesn’t mind that most of the time, you’ll be the main event. You need to be with a guy who supports how hard you work and who’ll bring you a cup of coffee late at night.”

66. “But I know who you should be with. You should be with a guy who doesn’t mind that you’re smarter than he is, who doesn’t mind that most of the time, you’ll be the main event. You need to be with a guy who supports how hard you work and who’ll bring you a cup of coffee late at night.”

Amy Bloom Quote: “I got by. I lived amputated, which sounds worse than it felt. I learned to do all kinds of large and small tasks, with part of me missing, and I feel pretty sure that the people who watched me in the world thought I was entirely able-bodied.”

67. “I got by. I lived amputated, which sounds worse than it felt. I learned to do all kinds of large and small tasks, with part of me missing, and I feel pretty sure that the people who watched me in the world thought I was entirely able-bodied.”

Amy Bloom Quote: “Scenes are alluded to but not always witnessed – because in life, one sometimes arrives late, or not at all, to the big scene, even though one feels its aftershocks for years. Conversations are overheard, but not always completely understood, and sometimes, even the eavesdropping must be abruptly curtailed – as in life.”

68. “Scenes are alluded to but not always witnessed – because in life, one sometimes arrives late, or not at all, to the big scene, even though one feels its aftershocks for years. Conversations are overheard, but not always completely understood, and sometimes, even the eavesdropping must be abruptly curtailed – as in life.”

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