That was the ideal: to remain dutiful to a preservationist ethos while not depriving yourself of modern creature comforts.
Stomach-sleepers like me were in retreat from reality, given to dark perception and the meditative arts. This
Sourmelina's secret (as Aunt Zo put it): 'Lina was one of those women they named the island after.
Pregnancy made her feel too much like an animal. It was embarrassing to be so publicly colonized.
Olivia lit a cigarette and said, God, if I worried about running into old boyfriends, I couldn't go anywhere!
None of us went to church, so we had a lot of time to watch them, the two parents leached of color, like photographic negatives, and then the five glittering daughters in their homemade dresses, all l...
Nagyapámnak viszont sokkal szörnyűbb valósághoz kellett hozzászoknia. Fogta a kezemet, hogy el ne essen, a fák és bokrok jobbra-balra korcsolyáztak szédülő szeme előtt, és eközben hirtelen ráébredt, h...
Miért tanulunk történelmet? Azért, hogy megértsük a jelent vagy azért, hogy megússzuk?
Madeline began hearing people saying Derrida. She heard them saying Lyotard and Foucault and Deleuze and Baudrillard. That most of these people were those she instinctually disapproved of- upper-middl...
Luce put his hand on the small of my back. Men have an annoying way of doing that. They touch your back as though there's a handle there, and direct you where they want you to go. Or they place their...
Lefty, who'd been observing all the ways Greece had been handed down to America, arrived now at where the transmission stopped. In other words: the future. He stepped off to meet it. Desdemona, having...
Lefty had seen Desdemona undress many times, but usually as no more than a shadow and never in moonlight. She had never curled onto her back like this, lifting her feet to take off her shoes. He watch...
Ha egyszer megjártad az alvilágot, soha többé nem felejted el a visszavezető utat.
Figures. They let you in for free. Then you gotta pay for the rest of your life.
Every letter was a love letter.
Dr. Philbosian smelled like an old couch, of hair oil and spilled soup, of unscheduled naps.
College wasn't like the real world. In the real world people dropped names based on their renown. In college, people dropped names based on their obscurity.
Capitalism has resulted in material well-being but spiritual bankruptcy.
But it rained all the time, fog covered the fields, and by then he was reading Tolstoy. There were some books that reached through the noise of life to grab you by the collar and speak only of the tru...
The daily act of writing remains as demanding and maddening as it was before, and the pleasure you get from writing - rare but profound - remains at the true heart of the enterprise. On their best day...