Sometimes she felt like a tiny gnat, whirring around her family’s edges
I’ll just tell you what I’ve learned that has helped me, he said. Shall I? Yes, tell me, she said, growing still. I broke my days into separate moments, he said. See, it’s true I didn’t have any more...
I always think it’s a good sign when a man likes cats. It shows he doesn’t feel the need to be in constant control of things.
Houses need humans, Red said. You all should know that. Oh, sure, humans cause wear and tear—scuffed floors and stopped-up toilets and such—but that’s nothing compared to what happens when a house is...
But still, you know how it is when you’re missing a loved one. You try to turn every stranger into the person you were hoping for. You hear a certain piece of music and right away you tell yourself th...
At this moment (letting a breeze ripple through her fingers like warm water), Maggie felt that the entire business of time's passing was more than she could bear.
That was Julian for you: reckless. A dashing sailor, a speedy driver, a frequenter of single bars, he was the kind of man who would make a purchase without consulting _Consumer Reports_.
The trouble with discarding bad memories was that evidently the good ones went with them
Well, in my country they say that you can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.Yes, they would, Pyotr said mysteriously. He had been walking a couple of steps ahead of Kate, but now he droppe...
There is no true life. Your true life is the one you end up with, whatever it may be. You just do the best you can with what you've got.
Sometimes he fantasised that at the end of his life, he would be shown a home movie of all the roads he had not taken, and where they would have led.
She said, 'Red, I want to learn every step of you, and dance till the end of the night.
Oh, the terrible, crushing, breath-stealing burden of people who think they own you!
My cousin Roger once told me, on the eve of his third wedding, that he felt marriage was addictive. Then he corrected himself. I mean early marriage, he said. The very start of a marriage. It's like a...
In my country they have proverb: ‘Beware against the sweet person, for sugar has no nutrition.’ This was intriguing. Kate said, Well, in my country they say that you can catch more flies with honey t...
I used to toy with the notion that when we die we find out what our lives have amounted to, finally. I'd never imagined that we could find that out when somebody else dies.
I too am relieved. I did not know if Kate would like me.Well, sure she would! You’re her own kind, right?I am her kind?Richard suddenly looked less sure of himself, but he said, I mean you’re in that...
Funny how you have to picture losing a thing before you think you might value it after all.
For years, she had been in mourning for the way she had let her life slip through her fingers. Given another chance, she’d told herself, she would take more care to experience it. But lately, she was...
Either she was admirably at ease anywhere or she suffered from a total lack of discrimination; Liam couldn't decide which.