You know, you seem like a completely different person, now that you're with this new boyfriend. You used to look like your husband, but now you look like David. You even dress like him and talk like h...
You can receive your ideas with respect and curiosity, not with drama or dread.
When the time is ripe for certain things, they appear at different places, in the manner of violets coming to light in early spring.
What you are Vivian is a type of person. To be more specific,you are a type of woman. A tediously common type of woman. Do you think I've not encountered your type before? Your sort will always be sli...
Well, child, you may do whatever you like with your suffering, Hanneke said mildly. It belongs to you. But I shall tell you what I do with mine. I grasp it by the small hairs, I cast it to the ground,...
We are like Tolstoy’s fabled beggar who spent his life sitting on a pot of gold, begging for pennies from every passerby, unaware that his fortune was right under him the whole time. Your treasure – y...
We are an increasingly depressed and anxious people—and not for nothing. Arguably, all these modern conveniences have been adopted to save us time. But time for what? Having created a system that tend...
We all know that fear is a desolate boneyard where our dreams go to desiccate in the hot sun.
This was not my moment to be seeking romance and (as day follows night) to further complicate my already knotty life. This was my moment to look for the kind of healing and peace that can only come fr...
There's something about a showgirl that always breaks my heart. Youth and beauty-they're such a short lease, girlie.
There's a wonderful old Italian joke about a poor man who goes to church every day and prays before the statue of a great saint,'Dear saint-please, please, please...give me the grace to win the lotter...
There were pages and pages of this. It was a confetti of thinking. It began nowhere, led to nothing, and concluded nothing.
There is something magnificent about encouraging someone to step forward into his own self-respect
There is only so long that a person can keep her enthusiasms locked away within her heart before she longs to share it with a fellow soul, and Alma had many decades of thoughts much overdue for sharin...
There is not a street in Naples in which some tough little kid in shorts and mismatched socks is not screaming up from the sidewalk to some other tough little kid on a rooftop nearby. Nor is there a b...
There are only two questions that human beings have ever fought over, all through history. How much do you love me? And Who’s in charge?
Then my mother shocked me. She said, All those things that you want from your relationship, Liz? I have always wanted those things too. [She] showed me the handful of bullets she'd had to bite over t...
Then I give her a grim shake of my head and say aloud, 'This blows ass.' She nods sympathetically. She doesn't understand, but of course, in her way she understands completely.
The unnecessary and superfluous volume of pure beauty around here is not to be believed. I can pick papayas and bananas right off the trees outside my bedroom window. There's a cat who lives here who...
The trick at every turn was to endure the test of living for as long as possible. The odds of survival were punishingly slim, for the world was naught by a school of calamity and an endless burning fu...