There was a quote about standing in a river too long or long enough that I can't find now. Anyone remember? If so, what page?
There are rocks deep enough in this earth that no matter what the rupture, they will never see the surface.There is, I think, a fear of love.There is a fear of love.
The person we know at first, she thinks, is not the one we know at last.
The disconnect between his mouth and his mind. That's where the camera came in. It was the unspoken thing between him and the others.
The core reason for it all was beauty. Walking was a divine delight. Everything was rewritten when he was up in the air. New things were possible with the human form. It went beyond equilibrium. He fe...
The city was bigger than its buildings, bigger than its inhabitants too. It had its own nuances. It accepted whatever came its way, the crime and the violence and the little shocks of good that crawle...
Some days he wishes that he could simply empty the chambers of the men, fill the halls instead with women: the short sharp shock of three thousand two hundred mothers. The ones who picked through the...
She's always thought that one of the beauties of New York is that you can be from anywhere and within moments of landing its yours.
She wanted to tell him so mach, on the tarmac, the day he left. The world is run by brutal men and the surest proof is their armies. If they ask you to stand still, you should dance. If they ask you t...
It’s like moving through a delicious fog.
It is one of their beauties, the Irish, the way they crush and expand the language all at once How they mangle it and revere it. How they color even their silences.
If your life doesn't flash in front of your eyes, old boy, does that mean you've had no life at all?
I went into my first marriage, blank to the schemes of love.
His face had softened: as if just being a moment with her had relaxed him, allowed him to be someone different. I guess this is what marriage is, or was, or could be. You drop the mask. You allow the...
He told me once that there was no better faith than a wounded faith and sometimes I wonder if that is what he was doing all along --trying to wound his faith in order to test it--and I was just anothe...
He said to me once that most of the time people use the word love as just another way to show off they’re hungry.
He has read whole volumes on the philosophy of nonviolence. How peace had to be understood in all its moral dimensions. The proper coexistence of all existents. The excluded middle ground. The surpass...
He glanced up in my direction and I froze. Quickly I turned away. There are rocks deep enough in this earth that no matter what the rupture, they will never see the surface.There is, I think, a fear o...
He didn't like it all that much when he first came - all the rubbish and the rush - but it was growing on him, it wasn't half bad. Coming to the city was like entering a tunnel, he said, and finding t...
He could be in any mood or any place and, unbidden, it returned.