At the end of the letter he said, Fuck you, you heartless bitch, you rolled up my heart and squeezed it dry. Still, when I recalled him I would always see him waiting for me under the silver high scho...
And what is it we give our children anyway, except the ability to not become us?
And I suddenly think, as I look across the table at him, that these are the days as they will be. This is the future as we see it. The swerve and the static. The confidence and the doubt.
A bi gezunt, his mother would have said. She was always one for the ancient phrase. You have your health, what more do you want? —
The way he spoke was magical, but after a while even his voice began to grate and he began to remind me of the colors of the walls in the hotel rooms in which he stayed...
A domino line of laughter, but with an edge to it, a longing, an awe, and many of the watchers realized with a shiver that no matter what they said, they really wanted to witness a great fall, see som...
Things just happen. It was a pathetic logic, but it was, at its core, true. Things happen. We had not wanted them to happen. They had arisen out of the ashes of chance.
نشستن در سکوتی خودخواسته بهتر از سکوتی تحمیلی است.
Прекрасен ден. Потапяха крака в щастието и не бяха готови да ги извадят. Хвърляха клечки във водните въртопчета и ги наблюдаваха как се изгубват. Постелиха си одеяло и ядоха сандвичи. По-късно сестра...
Надникна към пълната чаша и попита да не би нещо да не е наред.- Просто не съм в настроение.Погледна ме, като че ли беше много вероятно да съм извънземна. Не пие кафе? Обадете се в Агенцията за антиам...
Yet she likes complications. She wishes she could turn and say: I like people who unbalance me.
When a great truth gets abroad in the world, no power on earth can imprison it, or prescribe its limits, or suppress it. She could see an orchestra in him, a whole range of instruments and sound. His...
We seldom know what echo our actions will find, buy our stories will most certainly outlast us.
Watching them together slipped a knife between my ribs and hit my heart exactly.
They will have to live with it for the rest of the trip now, but Alcock knows how the engine roar can make a pilot fall asleep, that the rhythm can lull a man into nodding off before he hits the waves...
There’s nothing so absurd that you can’t find at least one person to buy it.
There were canvases in our backseat. We had tried to flog them at Max's Kansas City the night before, but we had failed. Paintings that nobody wanted. Still, we had carefully arranged them so they wou...
There are moments we return to. We are in theme. We rest there and there is nothing else.
The world is run by brutal men and the surest proof is their armies.
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 to burn the flag, wave it. If they ask you to murder, re-create.