The two sisters were connected by neither love nor mutual affinity but by a very small bathroom that could be entered from the bedroom on either side.
Sometimes not having any idea where we're going works out better than we could possibly have imagined.
Running, the music flew into him, became the wind that pushed back his hair and the slap of his own feet on the pavement.
Making friends with other writers you respect is reason enough to go to graduate school. You
Katsumi Hosokawa - (he) believed that life, true life, was something that was stored in music.
It's easier to love a woman when you can't understand a word she's saying.
In the future, he will try to say her name enough, but he never can.
I slept like his sister would have, without trouble or dreams.
I believe, more than anything, that this grief of constantly having to face down our own inadequacies is what keeps people from being writers. Forgiveness, therefore, is key. I can’t write the book I...
He hadn’t looked at the list, but if she were standing at
Everybody likes Anders. But if Vogel
Was an elegant woman in a city of so many thousands of elegant women...
So was the movie excruciating to watch because nothing was right, or was it excruciating to watch because, impossibly, some things were? Every
Inca Cola.
Her mother was lost in a sea of irregular verbs.
Cancer really was the devil's handshake.
There was no one clear point of loss. It happened over and over again in a thousand small ways and the only truth there was to learn was that there was no getting used to it.
Never had he thought, never once, that such a woman existed, one who stood so close to God that God's own voice poured from her. How far she must have gone inside herself to call up that voice. It was...
It was nothing like Roxanne singing, where it seemed that everyone's heart would have to wait until she finished before it could beat again.
I wrote the last sentence of in early April and stumbled out of my apartment and into the beautiful spring feeling panicked and amazed. There is no single experience in my life as a writer to match t...