Elles nous avaient fait participer à leur folie, parce que nous ne pouvions faire autrement.
Early June, Providence, Rhode Island, the sun up for almost two hours already, lighting up the pale bay and the smokestacks of the Narragansett Electric factory, rising like the sun on the Brown Unive...
Dieting fooled you into thinking you could control your life.
Depression is like a bruise that never goes away. A bruise in your mind. You just got to be careful not to touch it where it hurts. It's always there, though.
But that was in the days when they expected perils to come from without, and nothing made less sense by that time than a survival room buried in a house itself becoming one big coffin.
But maybe they understood more about life than I did. From an early age they knew what little value the world placed in books, and so didn't waste their time with them. Whereas I, even now, persist in...
Apesar de todos os cuidados e reclamações sobre ervas daninhas, eles não davam a mínima para os gramados.
Anyone have some mints or some gum? Bonnie asked. No one did, and she turned to Joe Hill Conley. She scrutinized him a moment, then, using her fingers, combed his part over to the left side. That look...
You don't understand me. I'm a teenager. I've got problems!
We realized that the version of the world they rendered for us was not the world they really believed in, and that for all their caretaking and bitching about crabgrass they didn't give a damn about l...
They were bound for college, husbands, child-rearing, unhappiness only dimly perceived—bound, in other words, for life.
There were some books that reached through the noise of life to grab you by the collar and speak only of the truest things.
Then one Sunday morning, before winter break, Abby's boyfriend, Whitney, materialized at their kitchen table, reading something called Of Grammatology. When Madeleine asked what the book was about, sh...
The girls took into their own hands decisions better left to God. They became too powerful to live among us, too self-concerned, too visionary, too blind.
Some people need a picture. Any great religion has to be inclusive. And to be inclusive you have to accommodate different levels of sophistication.
She wanted a book to take her places she couldn't get to herself.
Out past the weekly glimpsed windows, out past the street, lived the world, which had, Old Mrs. Karafilis knew, been dying for years.
Nikad nismo shvatili zašto je curama tako bitno da budu zrele, ili zašto osjećaju potrebu da jedna drugoj dijele komplimente, no kad bismo katkad naglas pročitali dugi odlomak dnevnika, morali smo sus...
Mania was a mental state every bit as dangerous as depression. At first, however, it felt like a rush of euphoria. You were completely captivating, completely charming; everybody loved you. You took r...
La depresión no es algo de lo que uno se quita. No puedes desengancharte de la depresión. Depresión es como un moretón que nunca se te quita. Un moretón en la mente. Tienes que tener mucho cuidado de...