We had started thinking of ourselves not in terms of things that we had done, but in terms of what we were going to do.
We confused the indoors with intimacy and electric heating with connection. Every night seemed like the last night because we would all freeze to death shortly.
They often got my file mixed up and thought that I had gone to juvenile detention for being a prostitute. All I had done was date a pimp.
There is no real dignity in any of these costumes. If I'm a maid, I do what the owner of the house tells me to do. If I'm a nurse, I do whatever the doctor tells me to do. What are we as women, other...
Poor people knew that all good times had to be paid for.
Men were taught to have so much pride, to go out into the world and make something of themselves. This Depression was deeply humiliating. Since women were taught that they were worthless, they took po...
Love is like this small room where a child brings you to show you all their treasures. First the child shows you all the new toys that are bright and shiny and top of the line. But then she shows you...
I'm a terrible person,' Pierrot said to her.'I'm quite wicked too', Rose said, and she smiled at him.Pierrot knew that Rose was punished every time she spoke to him. All her words were contraband, tre...
But although she interacted with so many people during the day, no one could actually say that they were close to her. There is an aloofness to the permanently heartbroken, a secrecy. There was someth...
A cat's tail waved above the arm of the couch like an elegant hand in a black glove waving goodbye.
A cat peeped in the window. It had one white paw. One night it had decided to dip it into the reflection of the moon in a fountain to see what would happen.
A beige cat came down the stairs like caramel seeping out of a Caramilk bar.
We just thought of old age as some sort of clown routine.
The real first kiss is the one that tells you what it feels like to be an adult and doesn't let you be a child anymore. The first kiss is the one that you suffer the consequences of. It was as if I ha...
The piano was just now telling me how it feels so odd when it rains. The rain can cause you to suddently feel guilty for all the tiny crimes you have committed, like not telling your friend that you l...
She went around reading men's minds. She went inside them as though they were bureaus and she were opening their drawers. She looked underneath folded articles of clothing. She found their dirty postc...
She liked the idea of being ruined. She was curious to see what would happen to her if no man would marry her. It seemed like the most likely way to have an adventure.
She had fat arms, the type of arms that held sailors and soldiers and thieves. The kind of arms that held someone who was going away to jail for ten years. They were the arms of a woman who had eaten...
Perhaps the most dangerous people in the world are the ones who believe in right and wrong but what they ascribe to as right and wrong is completely insane. They are bad with the conviction that they...
If you want to get a child to love you, then you should just go hide in the closet for three or for hours. They get down on their knees and pray for you to return. That child will turn you into God. L...