“Gestures are all that I have; sometimes they must be grand in nature.”
“But I also know that sometimes Adam needs to do things the dramatic way. He is fond of the Grand Gesture”
“Gestures are all that I have.”
“Pay attention, he thinks. Not to the grand gesture, but to the passing breath.”
“If a mark of affection can sometimes be taken for an insult, perhaps the gesture of love is not universal: it too must be translated from one language to another, must be learned.”
“I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.”