There were three wedding cakes, curious and historical but tasty, each labeled with a calligraphed card:Plumb Cake with currants, nutmeg, mace, cinnamon, salt, citron, orange peel candied, flour, eggs...
They lay together where they fell, and it was sweet and it was surprising, like waking up together in bed.
This was her version of sex, drugs, and rock ’n’ roll—dating a chalk artist, and teaching school.
No, no, no. The Rabbi raised his hands. The loan is free. Just return the eighteen hundred after the IPO. If you want to give me anything more, then you decide however to repay me. Give to tzedakah--a...
Women hate each other in science. You know why? Because the few that are around were trained by men. They survived by being twice as good and twice as competitive and twice as badass as the guys.
He felt poor, as well, although he didn’t consider himself poor. He considered himself free.
How sad, he thought, that desire found new objects but did not abate, that when it came to longing there was no end.
I taught more than one hundred kids today—and some of them were listening
In the kitchen, her family nibbled Helen’s lemon squares. Melanie urged brownies on the nurses. Take these, she told Lorraine. We can’t eat them all, but Helen won’t stop baking.Sweetheart, Lorraine s...
Jeanne’s sisters thought nothing of themselves.... Helen stayed up late in Brookline, baking. Lemon squares, and brownies, pecan bars, apple cake, sandy almond cookies. Alone in her kitchen, she wrapp...
Kids can tell when teachers are trying, Collin said. It’s like how dogs smell fear.
Leaving this changeling for George, she washed his ripe fruit, and bit and broke the skin. An intense tang, the underside of velvet. Then flesh dissolved in a rush of nectar. Juice drenched her hand a...
She didn’t think that she could sway the universe, but she hoped that you could nudge it with a prayer.
Noah. I have
On breezy days when the wind was not too light and not too strong, Will and Pamela and the children flew their homemade kites in Peaceful Park until they were specks in the blue sky. When the wind was...
Only the carelessly youthful and naive could have the gall to think that surviving is blessing enough
The only thing you care about is the beginning and the end. You can never be in the middle; you can never actually be with someone or learn something or get something done, because you’re always start...
He said, I had to dance with all the girls who didn’t have a partner. I’d be the youngest one, and I was like a foot shorter, so I was staring straight at all these eighth-grade breasts. Sh! What? It...
Required personal discovery seemed like an oxymoron to Nina, but so did many other aspects of the school.
He could explain away the mechanical, but the inner workings of the soul eluded him
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