A strangely prolonged lunch involving lobster, that infernally overrated food....
Service is one of life's great joys. It's a privilege to be in service. It's a great relief, a gift, to be faced with a job that you know absolutely you must do for the benefit of someone else. As lon...
Don't all women feel the same? The only difference is how much we know we feel it, how in touch we are with our fury. We're all furies, except the ones who are too damned foolish, and my worry now is...
We wouldn’t be proper children if we didn’t disregard our parents’ most vital instruction.
Have you ever asked yourself whether you’d rather fly or be invisible?
Geniuses have the shortest biographies.
For so long I had eaten my greens and here - at last! - was my ice-cream sundae.
For real?' Cassie's eyes glittered, and it occurred to me that all along she'd expected me to stop us. She'd goaded and teased me, made out like I was a wimp; but she also relied on me to keep us safe...
With someone you’ve always known and have loved without thinking, there’s the strangeness of knowing everything and nothing about them at the same time.
Each of us shapes our stories so they make sense of who we think we are.
I’m forty-two years old—which is a lot more like middle age than forty or even forty-one.
Was this what it meant to grow up, this vast loneliness?
He said that’s what family is for: the people who love you see you in the best light, as you want to be seen.
There are social struggles, and the agonies and embarrassments of puberty...and the weight of the world that falls upon each of us in varying degrees, as we finally relinquish childhood's clouds of gl...
Death and his zealous minions—dread, despair, disease—can find you anywhere at all, and the armor plate of youth will no longer protect you.
Cassie could be affectionate and scornful at the same time, and I always felt that if I wasn't careful, the scorn might win out.
Nobody would know me from my own description of myself;
Like a Zen master, she reduced to the essences: I do not need to walk around the Museum of Fine Arts; I do not need to be pushed around the MFA in the chair; I do not need the MFA at all, because its...
But we're lost in a world of appearances now.
But we don’t really know anything at all, except how the story should go, and we make believe it’s our story, hoping everything will turn out okay. The difference is that onstage, or in a film, we ack...
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