And he rose, brontosaurus-like, to his place among the treetops.
They had killed themselves over the failure to find a love that none of us could ever be.
Though she carried on few extended conversations, we got an idea of her state of mind from the little that got back to us of the little she said.
It occurred to us that she and the girls read secret signs of misery in cloud formations, that despite the discrepancies in their ages something timeless communicated itself between them, as though sh...
Her tragedy hadn't made her more approachable, and in fact lent her the unknowable quality of a person who had suffered more than could be expressed.
Cecilia had unleashed her blood in the bath, Amy Schraff said, because the ancient Romans had done that when life became unbearable, and she thought when Dominic heard about it, on the highway, amid t...