Alcuni di noi soffrono in silenzio di un male rumoroso. E questo è quanto ho da dire sulla paura.
E penso a quel detto che ripetono sempre tutti: la vita è dura... e poi muori. A dire il vero, non è affatto così. Questo lo dicono loro. La vita è dura: su questo hanno ragione. Ma quei giorni che do...
Mi immaginavo noi due che cuocevamo le mele per Natale, quegli stupidi quadretti romantici alla Currier e Ives... pensavo per tutto il tempo: A volte quello che abbiamo passa per amore, quando invece...
I am so suggestible. When Chatty asks if I am hungry, I say, I could be. I would try to become the woman you wanted without even knowing I was trying. As it is, I am barely the woman I am.
She introduces me to a nurse as the Best Friend. The impersonal article is more intimate. It tells me that are intimate, the nurse and my friend.'I was telling her we used to drink Canada Dry ginger...
I meet a person, and in my mind I'm saying three minutes; I give you three minutes to show me the spark.
It was like that class at school where the teacher talks about Realization, about how you could realize something big in a commonplace thing. The example he gave--and the liar said it really happened-...
Here is what you do. You ease yourself into a tub of water, you ease yourself down. You lie back and wait for the ripples to smooth away. Then you take a deep breath, and slide your head under, and li...
The psychic said I would have two children. This makes me shake my head. I know you are not supposed to leave a baby alone. Not even for a minute. But after a while I think, What could happen to a bab...
I sleep with a glass of water on the nightstand so I can see by its level if the coastal earth is trembling or if the shaking is still me.
What you forget, living here, is that just because you have stopped sinking doesn't mean you're not still underwater.
This is a good movie,' she said when snipers felled them both.I missed her already.
As soon as I knew that I would be all right, I was sure that I was dead and didn't know it. I moved through the days like a severed head that finishes a sentence. I waited for the moment that would sn...
What I think, Chatty says, is that if a man loves a woman more than a woman loves a man, then they're even.
It is just possible I will say I stayed the night.And who is there that can say that I did not?
Yesterday, where someone had dumped a cat-scratched leather recliner in the weedy empty lot around the corner, an elderly man was found sitting in the chair, quietly disoriented. The recliner looked l...
I am not quite myself, I think.But who here is quite himself? And yet there is a way in which we are all more ourselves than ever, I suppose.
While the world worlds up at us. I
And what about the certainty I feel regarding you? You could say that an hour is not a lot to go on. But always, before, a thing didn't work because I was too young and too old. Too dumb and too smart...
It’s the natural trajectory of a writing career that a writer becomes better at being herself.
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