This was her moment, the perfect now.
They were so taken by the beauty of her voice that they wanted to cover her mouth with their mouth, drink in. Maybe music could be transferred, devoured, owned. What would it mean to kiss the lips tha...
They were her kidnappers, sailing her across the lawn and into the backseat of the car, lifting up her feet while pivoting her around in a way that was disturbingly professional, as if stealing old pe...
They said no, she can’t make it. They said everything’s closed. And I said you don’t know Ann. And then he drifted off to sleep. Explain doubt to me, because at that moment I ceased to understand it....
These people who detain us so pleasantly may decide to shoot us after all. It is a possibility. And if that is the case, then why should I carry this love with me to the other world? Why not give to y...
There’s no protecting anyone, Fix said, and reached over from his wheelchair to put his hand on hers. Keeping people safe is a story we tell ourselves.
There are rivers, hundreds of them, running underground all the time, and because of this a man can say he is walking on water.
The words Ask Your Doctor parked across the top of the screen, as if the advertisers had anticipated everyone turning off the sound. Franny wondered if the drug was for depression, an overactive bladd...
The question is whether or not you choose to disturb the world around you, or if you choose to let it go on as if you had never arrived. That is how one respects indigenous people. If you pay any atte...
The process of putting the thing you value most in the world out for the assessment of strangers is a confidence-shaking business even in the best of times.
The process of putting the thing you value most in the world out for the assessment of strangers is a confidence-shaking business even in the best of times. But in Lucy's circumstances it was sheer he...
The more we are willing to separate from distraction and step into the open arms of boredom, the more writing will get on the page.
The kind of love that offers itself so easily, so stupidly, is always the love that is not returned.
The impressions we pick up as children, when our minds are still open to influence and as soft as damp sponges, are likely to stay with us the longest.
The idea that she would have the opportunity to get over something thrilled her. The
The Swedish he knew was mostly from Bergman films. He had learned it as a college student, matching the subtitles to the sounds. In Swedish, he could only converse on the darkest of subjects.
Standing waist deep in the swimming pool at Yaddo, I received a gift—it was the first decent piece of instruction about marriage I had ever been given in my twenty-five years of life. Does your husban...
Somebody's going to have to make the money to buy you all those books.They're free, Franny said. I check them out of the library.Well, thank God for libraries, Caroline said.
Simon Thibault would never die in a foolish gesture for Edith. On the contrary, he would take every cowardly recourse available to him to ensure that their lives were spent together.
She would not attend the dinner (she did not eat before she sang) but would arrive at the end of the meal and perform six arias with her accompanist.