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...
Alcuni di noi soffrono in silenzio di un male rumoroso. E questo è quanto ho da dire sulla paura.
Some of us are silent sufferers of a noisy disease.
I had my own bed. I slept in it alone, except for those times when we needed—not sex—but sex was how we got there.
While the world worlds up at us. I
It is just possible I will say I stayed the night.And who is there that can say that I did not?
He could not wait to get rid of them so he could enjoy remembering them.
What you forget, living here, is that just because you have stopped sinking doesn't mean you're not still underwater.
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...
Marriageability was the original title of The Harvest.
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-...
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.
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...
consolation is a beautiful word. everyone skins his knee-that doesnt make yours hurt anyless.
We can only die in the future, I thought; right now we are always alive.
The worst of it is over now, and I can't say that I am glad. Lose that sense of loss—you have gone and lost something else. But the body moves toward health. The mind, too, in steps. One step at a tim...
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.
This is a good movie,' she said when snipers felled them both.I missed her already.
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.