Was this what marriage was, the slow process of getting to know another individual far better than was advisable? Sometimes [his] gestures and inflections were so mercilessly familiar that it was as i...
Other people were so unsuccessful at fending off love! Members of Congress who had affairs with their aides, or students who I'd known in college, girls who as freshmen declared themselves lesbians, t...
Ordinarily, of course, I thought it best to remain inconspicuous, but the gesture had a certain irresistable theatricaility, and an inevitablility. Sometimes you can feel the pull of what other people...
I take it you don't believe in love at first sight.''Does anyone over the age of thirteen? Do you?''I don't, no,' Darcy said. 'But I don't rule out for others what I haven't experienced first hand.
I seriously think he’s one of those dudes where, his whole life, he’s gotten credit for being smart and moral for no reason other than he’s tall. Anyway,
I am filled with gratitude at the astonishing fact of being married to someone I enjoy talking to, someone with whom I can’t imagine ever running out of things to say.
I am filled with gratitude at the astonishing fact of being married to someone I enjoy talking to, someone with whom I can't imagine running out of things to say.
Foolish names and foolish faces often appear in public places.
If it's great reverence you're looking for, or earnest expressions of gratitude - well, then you don't work with kids.
We create our own reality—that the truth, ultimately, is what we choose to believe.
You never know the nature of another couple's marriage, do you?
Then I thought of how my life at Ault was a series of interactions and avoidance of interactions in which I pretended not to mind that I was almost always by myself. I could not last for long this way...
Once I had asked, ‘But are you a Democrat or a Republican? and Jonathan said, I’m socially progressive but fiscally conservative, and Doug Miles, a football player who also came to Sunday breakfast bu...
No, we were still in the same room, both of us having to breathe and speak in the aftermath of her wink.
In camine, unii dintre elevi se apucasera deja sa impacheteze, lucru pe care eu il uram – vedeam peretii goi si suprafetele lipsite de obiecte ca pe niste aluzii rauvoitoare la cat de efemer era totul...
If you knew where your happiness came from, it gave you patience. You realized that a lot of the time, you were just waiting out a situation, and that took the pressure off; you no longer looked to ev...
I'm old enough to know that sometimes you don't get a second chance.
I'm not a Democrat because I haven't thought about the issues. I'm a Democrat because I have.
I wanted my life to start - but in those rare moments when it seemed like something might actually change, panic shot through me.
I feel like a lot of life is distasteful and embarrassing. And you just push through it. You fix what you can, and you let time pass.