No one on the street thought anything of the downtown girl dressed in black who had paused in the middle of midtown foot traffic. In her art student camouflage she could walk the entire length of Manh...
Murder had a blood red door on the other side of which was everything unimaginable to everyone.
Her brain was a storm, her usual insight gone.
As if in the other side of his kiss there could ve a new life
Outside the hospital, a young girl who was selling small bouquets of daffodils, their green stems tied with lavender ribbons. I watched as my mother bought out the girl's whole stock. Nurse Eliot, who...
The moon is whole all the time, but we can’t always see it. What we see is an almost moon or not-quite moon. The rest is hiding just out of view, but there’s only one moon, so we follow it in the sky....
Since then he had taken these photos out too many times to count, but each time he looked into the face of this woman he had felt something growing inside him. It took him a long time to realize what...
She told her journal about me passing by her in the parking lot, about how on that night I had touched her-literally, she felt it, reached out. What I had looked like then. How she dreamed about me. H...
No one can pull anyone back from anywhere. You save yourself or you remain unsaved.
In the midst of your failure, you were slowly building the life that you wanted anyway
How to Commit the Perfect Murder was an old game in heaven. I always chose the icicle: the weapon melts away.
Because horror on Earth is real and it is every day. It is like a flower or like the sun; it cannot be contained.
And i was gone.
There’s no condition one adjusts to so quickly as a state of war.
The shadow of years was not as big on his small body. He knew I was away . But when people left they always came back.
Like a medical procedure,' Ruth said. 'Intricate surgery is needed to patch up the planet.
I left my mark on that man.
You don't notice the dead leaving when they really hoose to leave you. You're not meant to. At most you feel them as a whisper or the wave of a whisper undulating down.
The alcohol had the effect of making the black cloth blacker. This amused her; she had noted in her journal: booze affects material as it does people.
Since then I've always thought that under rape in the dictionary it should tell the truth. It is not just forcible intercourse; rape means to inhabit and destroy everything.