Those were lean years for emotional charity...
Maybe there would be a bad outcome for some of the others, but no one was going to shoot a soprano.
It was already in place, without him seeing any of it, the web was spun and snug around the house, and while his first impulse, the natural impulse, was to press ahead anyway and see if he might beat...
I will write my way into another life.
I was stopped by security guards in four buildings today. I showed my ID, was told I could go up, and then I was stopped by a second guard at the elevator who told me I couldn’t go up. Fodé nodded wit...
I don’t want to wind up some old woman who talks to her rabbit, she said to Rabbit, who was chewing so furiously he didn’t even bother to lift his head.
I carried him around for years, but one day, I don’t know, I put him down. I didn’t dream about him anymore. I didn’t think what he’d want for lunch every time I got lunch, I didn’t look at the guy ri...
Had she done something with her life no one would be asking her to make them cappuccino, and had she done something with her life she would be perfectly happy to make them cappuccino, because it would...
And what I think is that this belief I had was what ruined everything. That's the thing that kept me from going out and finding him, this idea that when he was ready he was going to come and find me....
Stopped by this. Even she, who knew next to nothing
Your guilt’s got nothing on my guilt, Franny said. Your guilt isn’t even in the ballpark.
Why is it that we understand playing the cello will require work, but we attribute writing to the magic of inspiration?
What do the only children do?
She didn't know how to hate her mother yet, but every time she left her father crying in the airport she came that much closer to figuring it out.
Politicians never mentioned the details of life because of course the details that appealed to one person could repel another, so what you wound up with in the end were a long string of generalities,...
It was a time in my life when a Junior Mint could mean the difference between happiness and unhappiness.
It turns out that the distance from head to hand, from wafting butterfly to entomological specimen, is achieved through regular, disciplined practice. What begins as something like a dream will in fac...
Isn't that what everyone wants, just for a moment to be unencumbered?
If what a person wants is his life, he tends to be quiet about wanting anything else. Once the life begins to seem secure, one feels the freedom to complain.
If what a person wants is his life, he tends to be quiet about wanting anything else. Once the life begins to seem secure, one feels the freedom to complain. Victor