When I was young I asked more of people than they could give: everlasting friendship, endless feeling. Now I know to ask less of them than they can give: a straightforward companionship. And their feelings, their friendship, their generous actions seem in my eyes to be wholly miraculous: a consequence of grace alone.


The First Man (ed. Vintage, 2012) - ISBN: 9780307827869


When I was young I asked more of people than they could give: everlasting friendship, endless feeling. Now I know to ask less of them than they can...

When I was young I asked more of people than they could give: everlasting friendship, endless feeling. Now I know to ask less of them than they can...

When I was young I asked more of people than they could give: everlasting friendship, endless feeling. Now I know to ask less of them than they can...

When I was young I asked more of people than they could give: everlasting friendship, endless feeling. Now I know to ask less of them than they can...