She was Anna Madrigal, a self-made woman, and there was no one else in the world exactly like her.
Small world, huh?She grinned lewdly. Not particularly. I’d say you’ve just run out of material.
The people beneath the pendulum were in their own orbits of bliss or grief, which Shawna did not want to invade. Instead she made her way upstairs, reading the inscriptions that caught her eye, moved...
We’re gonna be … I mean people like you and me … we’re gonna be fifty-year-old libertines in a world full of twenty-year-old Calvinists.
You don’t have to keep up, dear. You just have to keep open.
Footnotes to a feeling
We’re gonna be fifty-year-old libertines in a world full of twenty-year-old Calvinists.
And this was what bothered him about owning a VCR. If that cowboy was yours for the taking—yours at the flip of a switch—what was to stop you from abandoning human contact altogether? He
C’mon, let’s go join those tedious people.
Don't listen when they scoffThat you are too old and I am young,For I am old enough to know betterAnd you are young enough not to care.
Her Mao tse-tung t-shirt was stretched so tightly across her chest that the Chairman was grinning broadly
I busted my butt trying to be everything to one person. Finally, I had to settle for being one thing to every person.
It all goes so fast, she thought. We dole out our lives in dinner parties and plane flights, and it's over before we know it. We lose everyone we love, if they don't lose us first, and every single th...
It occurred to Michael that this was the great perk of being loved: someone to wait for you, someone to tell you that it will get easier up ahead. Even when it might not be true.
Jesus Christ, you people are complicated.
Over the next eight years, almost without noticing, I arrived at a quiet revelation. You could make a home by yourself. You could fill that home with friends and friendly strangers without someone sle...
The earth knows exactly how to hold us if we just let it.
The hell of it is, I know the answer. The answer is that you never, ever, rely on another person for your peace of mind. If you do, you're screwed but good. Not right away, maybe, but sooner or later....
I haven't lost faith in human nature and I haven't decided to be less compassionate to strangers.
It’s time to get mad, Michael. Niceness doesn’t count for shit!
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