We are often insane with happiness. We are also very unhappy for reasons neither of us can do anything about. Like being separated.
There's something about the way she says it that makes me feel strange... It dawns on me that I am jealous. Jesus. I can't believe I'm feeling jealous of a multimillionaire rock star geezer old enough...
She's going to break my heart and I'm going to let her.
She talked back, but he didn't understand her raven language of harsh caws and soft croaks.
Rivelerò un segreto: a volte sono contenta che Henry non ci sia. A volte mi piace stare sola. A volte, a tarda notte, passeggio per la casa e fremo di piacere all'idea di non dover parlare né toccare,...
Our love has been the thread through the labyrinth, the net under the high-wire walker, the only real thing in this strange life of mine that I could ever trust. Tonight I feel that my love for you ha...
I wanted someone to love who would stay: stay and be there, always.
I think play must have been invented so we wouldn't go mad thinking about certain things.
Have you ever found your heart's desire and then lost it? I had seen myself, a portrait of myself as a reader. My childhood: days home sick from school reading Nancy Drew, forbidden books read secreti...
Clare is silent. Her pragmatism and her romantic feelings about Jesus and Mary are, at thirteen, almost equally balanced. A year ago she would have said God without hesitation. In ten years she will v...
Alba, it's okay,' Clare says softly. She looks at me. 'Say the poem about lovers on the carpet.'I blank, and then I remember. I feel self-conscious reciting Rilke in front of all these people, and so...
Clare, I want to tell you, again, I love you. Our love has been the thread through the labyrinth, the net under the high-wire walker, the only real thing in this strange life of mine that I could ever...
I wait for him. Each moment that I wait feels like a year, an eternity. Each moment is as slow and transparent as glass. Through each moment I can see infinite moments lined up, waiting. Why has he g...
Time is priceless, but it’s Free. You can't own it, you can use it. You can spend it. But you can't keep it. Once you've lost it you can never get it back.
The space that I can call mine, that isn't full of Henry, is so small that my ideas have become small.
Sister Carmelita says animals don't have soulsOf course animals have souls, where did she get that idea?She said the Pope says. The Pope's an old meanie. Animals have much nicer souls than we do. They...
Praise means nothing to Mama, she doesn't believe it. Only criticism can flush her cheeks and catch her attention. If I were to say something disparaging she would remember it always.
Ovo je jedna od onih zimskih večeri kada se čini da hladnoća svakog pojedinog predmeta usporava vrijeme poput uskog srednjeg dijela pjščanog sata kroz koji protječe samo vrijeme, ali polako, polako.
Not because they’re dead. Though unattainability is always attractive.
Laufen bedeutet für mich vieles: Überleben, Ruhe, Euphorie, Einsamkeit. Es ist der Beweis meiner körperlichen Existenz und der Fähigkeit, dass ich meine Bewegung durch den Raum, wenn auch nicht in der...