I gave him a gentle uncomprehending look in return. I am a grown-up woman now; let him unbury his own catastrophes.
How Are We to Live is a collection of short stories, not a novel. This in itself is a disappointment. It seems to diminish the book’s authority, making the author seem like somebody who is just hangin...
Chronic means that it will be permanent but perhaps not constant.
I got interested in reading very early, because a story was read to me, by Hans Christian Andersen, which was 'The Little Mermaid,' and I don't know if you remember 'The Little Mermaid,' but it's drea...
I don't think that much about my relationship with my mother and what it did to me. I sometimes feel terrible regret about her, what her life must have been like. Often, when I'm enjoying something, I...
I was happy in the library. Walls of printed pages, evidence of so many created worlds--this was a comfort to me.
يكي دوبار كارلا يكدفعه شروع كرده بود به حرف زدن و كار خيلي احمقانه اي كرده بود، فقط براي آنكه فضا را عوض كند. از آن كارهايي كه كه وقتي سواركارهاي دست و پاچلفتي و وحشتزده تازه كار احساس حقارت مي كردند،...
Так что будь умницей, Хелен, и живи дальше, как все остальные, и скоро-скоро мы все увидим весну.
Hector him like this from now on, when I could get him alone.
We say of some things that they can't be forgiven, or that we will never forgive ourselves. But we do -- we do it all the time.
To dare it; to get away with it, to enter on preposterous adventures in your own, but newly named, skin.
The images, the language, of pornography, and romance are alike; monotonous and mechanically seductive, quickly leading to despair.
One's appreciation of meager comforts, it seems, depends on what misery one has gone through before getting them.
I felt in him what women feel in men, something so tender, swollen, tyrannical, absurd; I would never take the consequences of interfering with it.
Moments of kindness and reconciliation are worth having, even if the parting has to come sooner or later.
براي همين حالا دارم راه و روشم را عوض مي كنم و دستكم فعلا خداحافظ دفتر خاطرات. هميشه احساس مي كردم ماجراي واقعاعجيب و غريب در زندگي ام اتفاق مي افتد، و خيلي مهم است كه همه چيز را ثبت كرده باشم. يعني ا...
They spoke like caricatures, it was unbearable.
He says the pills he's got her on will keep her from sinking too low. How low is too low, Roy thinks, and when can you tell?
Few people, very few, have a treasure, and if you do you must hang on to it. You must not let yourself be waylaid and have it taken from you.
Housework never really bothered me... what bothered me about it later was that it was expected to be your life... when you're a housewife, you are constantly interrupted. You have no space in your lif...