What would happen to others, not oneself. Rosanna thought that was what accounted for the crowd’s
When your parents don’t like you, then you are free.
What you saw was what you got, and she did not believe, as some of the other girls said, that the boys at the parties were separate from some sober incarnation of the same boys.
What do you think makes you start laughing and unable to stop?
She had felt a surge of fear so strong
The thing about Republicans is that they don't care so much about respect, but they love fear, at least in others.
She had a cloth in her hands. She said, Frankie hungry?
He hadn’t had her as a teacher, which meant that he could tell her what
Hands behind his head. He took another deep breath. The whore
I looked at her without replying. For me it had been more like being a passenger in a car that was going out of control. For three months we’d been swerving across the road, missing light poles and on...
I always think that things have to happen the way they do happen, that there are so many inner and outer forces joining at every event that it becomes a kind of fate. I learned from studying Buddhism...
Had I faced all the facts It seemed like I had but actually you never know just by remembering how many there were to have faced.
Arthur said, You must know that you don't love children for being good or bad. I know you know that.Why do you love them?Because you do, said Arthur. Because they don't know what's coming and maybe yo...
The only siblings I have are half-siblings. My nuclear family would have been an extra-suffocating threesome. Instead, I have an interesting brother and sister, in-laws, and darling nephews.
In December 1998, I considered myself an expert on love. I was almost a year into a relationship, one that had grown more slowly than I had wished, but once it flowered it was much more stimulating th...
She dressed to look good, and I dressed for obscurity.
She could not imagine what she could do to reconstruct all the things she enjoyed, and she could hardly remember what it was that she had enjoyed.
Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.
It was one of life's treats, wasn't it, paying a visit to your past, swinging like a ball on a string away from the person you loved, always knowing that the string must pull you back, and you would b...
Fascination with horses predated every other single thing I knew. Before I was a mother, before I was a writer, before I knew the facts of life, before I was a schoolgirl, before I learned to read, I...