It’s been a complicated decade for me.
It had happened before she was born, this wholesale discarding of American industry, this switch from a culture that made things of value to a culture that consumed things of dubious merit. She’d grow...
I got divorced today, she said. I lost my job—no, correct that, my career—six months ago, as you well know, because I had a panic attack on the air. I’ve grown terrified of people, not particular peop...
He wanted to go on for hours. He wanted someone to listen to him and to understand that speech wasn't just about communicating ideas or opinions. Sometimes, it was about trying to convey whole human l...
He held up a hand to stop her. Then one day, about six months ago, it hit me—love doesn’t trump all for you, safety does. And I knew sooner or later you’d dump me before I’d dump you because—and this...
Happiness comes in moments, & then it's gone until the next time. Could be years. But sadness settles it.
Grief, I swear to God, doesn't live in the heart. It lives in the senses. And sometimes, all I want to do is cut off my nose so I can't smell her, hack my fingers off at the joint.
Everyone wants to tell you something -anything, everything - about themselves and they just go on and on and on. But when it comes time to show you who they are? Their shit is weak, Nadia. Their shit...
Confidence you haven't earned always has the brightest glow.
But in those final seconds, a catalogue of emotion found his eyes. There was dismay. Self-pity. Terror. An abandonment so total it took thirty years off his life and turned him into a ten-year-old bef...
But I say their rules are bullshit. I say there are no rules but the ones a man makes for himself.
But I often think we talk way too much in this society, that we consider verbalization a panacea that it very often is not, and that we turn a blind eye to the sort of morbid self-absorption that beco...
Bob, who had never been late in his life, suspected there was something hostile at the core of people who always were.
Another thing Tim was fond of saying was when a house falls down, the first termite to bite into it is just as much to blame as the last. Joe didn't get that one--the first termite would be long fucki...
And yet they acquired. They built scaffolds of debt, and just when it seemed the pile would come tumbling down from the weight, they bought a living room set on layaway, tossed it up on top. And as th...
And that’s when it hit me. Like a building had fallen on me. The oxygen in my chest swirled into a vortex created by a single instant of horrifying clarity.
And he hated himself and hated her,too, for the ruin they'd made of each other.
All his ghosts, though, were gone. Except the boy. The boy cocked his head at Joe, as if surprised he was coming closer. Joe said, You’re me? The boy seemed confused by the question. Because he wasn’t...
After I left Brandon, I met Dominique at the Neptune Oyster in the North End.
Он без лишних рассуждений понял, что смертен, ничтожен и первый шаг к выходу из этого мира он сделал тогда, когда в него вошел.