Nobody's happy. What's happy? Happiness is over when the lights come on
How could I possibly NOT be disappointed by what I would find? Nothing had ever met my expectation, since nothing could compete with my doctoring imagination, my pathetic compulsion to make the world...
Numbed by disappointment and betrayal, like a child who had been awakened suddenly from a summer dream about christmas morning.
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...
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
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.
THERE WERE MORNINGS WHEN VINCENT FELT LIKE THE last hippie in the world. The Last Hippie. The phrase assumed a kind of tragic grandeur as he stood in the bathroom of his Oak Street flat, fluffing his...
C’mon, let’s go join those tedious people.
DEAR MAMA, I’m sorry it’s taken me so long to write. Every time I try to write to you and Papa I realize I’m not saying the things that are in my heart. That would be O.K., if I loved you any less tha...
If I had my way...We would lock ourselves away from that madness out there...
The little pool was lighted now, the same glowing green-or so I imagined-as the eyes of the cats who slept in the shadows around it.
Garbage, you know, is very revealing.It beats the shit out of tarot cards.
If you’re going to be degenerate, you might as well be a lady about it, don’t you think?
The hostess extended her swanlike neck and opened her mouth to the fullest. Aaaahhhaaaahhhhheeeeaaaahhhh!Somewhere in the depths of the pine forest an identical sound reverberated. An echo! exclaimed...
Her Mao tse-tung t-shirt was stretched so tightly across her chest that the Chairman was grinning broadly
Her apartment seemed fussier than ever, as if the doilies and tassels had taken to breeding in their unguarded moments.
His name is Jed, he said. He’s in pre-law at Rice University. That’s all I know, except that he’s probably straight. The landlady gave him a sly smile. That’s what he told you? He’s probably straight?...
You cannot be loved by someone who doesn't want to know you.
Two days after his twelfth birthday, a fortnight before his father was jailed for debt, Charles Dickens was sent to work in a blacking factory. There, in a rat-infested room by the docks, he sat for t...
Thack seemed to sort something out for a moment. Sometimes I watch him when he’s playing with Harry or digging in the yard. And I think: This is it, this is the guy I’ve waited for all my life. Then t...
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