His confidence was enviable and maddening. Most of the time she didn’t want him to solve or contradict her worries, she just needed him to listen and agree with her on the awfulness at hand. This was...
I had just dropped out of medicine in my first year of residency, a few months shy of becoming a licensed M.D. I'd discovered there was something serious, mainly a matter of nerve and perhaps empathy,...
Waar het om gaat is dat als je het hebt over identiteit, je dat niet zomaar uit mensen kunt wegredeneren. Het verdwijnt niet door de minachting van buitenstaanders, het wordt er juist door verhevigd.
Move on. Walk forward into the light.
Humans can be fairly ridiculous animals.
Some people say religion is finding yourself, and some people say it’s losing yourself in a crowd.
Writing, which was both painful and palliative for me, turned out to be my own way of giving blood in a crisis. I can only hope this unit of words will have a longer shelf life than the forty-two days...
How pointless life could be, what a foolish business of inventing things to love, just so you could dread losing them.
Like many human beings, he took the least sign of conversation as his cue to make noise.
Cash misses his wife with a blank pain in his chest, and he misses his sisters and cousins, who have known him since he was a strong, good-looking boy. Everyone back there remembers, or if they are to...
All the noise in my brain. I clamp it to the page so it will be still.
It's the same struggle for each of us, and the same path out: the utterly simple, infinitely wise ultimately defiant act of loving one thing and then another, loving our way back to life... Maybe bein...
I looked hard out the window and understood suddenly that what I saw was full of color. A watercolor wash of summer light lay on the Catalina Mountains. The end of a depression is that clear: it’s as...
Every education brings a point of reckoning, and this was his: seeing the world divided in two camps, the investigators and the sweeteners
He was my father. I own half his genes, and all of his history. Believe this: the mistakes are part of the story. I am born of a man who believed he could tell nothing but the truth, while he set down...
She wondered if humiliation ever ran its natural course and peeled off, like a sunburn, or just kept blazing.
Our holiday food splurge was a small crate of tangerines, which we found ridiculously thrilling after an eight-month abstinence from citrus.... Lily hugged each one to her chest before undressing it a...
Many other raw food products--notably poultry from CAFOs--typically carry a much higher threat to human health in terms of pathogen load, and yet the government trusts us to render it safe in our own...
Her every possession was either unbreakable, or broken.
Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot.
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