It was like autumn, looking at her. it was like driving up north to see the colors.
It seemed like we were supposed to feel sorry for everything that ever happened, ever.
It seemed especially cruel, then, three days later, in the hospital when the doctor came into the room to tell Leonard that he suffered from something that would never go away, something that could on...
It is wonderful barefoot in New York. It is like walking on one big giant tomb!
It is said: San Francisco is where young people go to retire.
It is perhaps in reading a love story (or in writing one) that we can simultaneously partake of the ecstasy and agony of being in love without paying a crippling emotional price. I offer this book, th...
In the Orthodox Church, we don't go for partial immersion; no sprinkling, no forehead dabbing for us. In order to be reborn, you have to be buried first, so under the water I went.
Ilyenek a férfiak. Úgy mutatják ki az érzelmeiket, hogy rád telepszenek, akár a koporsófedél. És még ezt hívják szerelemnek.
If you used your head, if you became aware of how love was culturally constructed and began to see your symptoms as purely mental, if you recognized that being in love was only an idea, then you could...
If you grew up in a house where you weren't loved, you didn't know there was an alternative. If you grew up with emotionally stunted parents, who were unhappy in their marriage and prone to visit that...
If Mitchell was ever going to become a good Christian, he would have to stop disliking people so intensely.
I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of 1974.
I was aware only of what a strange thing it was to be male. Society discriminated against women, no question. But what about the discrimination of being sent to war? Which sex was really thought to be...
I live my own life and nurse my own wounds. It's not the best way to live. But it's the way I am.
Historical fact: people stopped being human in 1913. That was the year Henry Ford put his cars on rollers and made his workers adopt the speed of assembly line.
Here's a question I still can't answer: Did I see through the male tricks because I was destined to scheme that way myself? Or do girls see through the tricks, too, and just pretend not to notice?
He had the wit of a store mannequin.
He came back to us with stories of bedrooms filled with crumpled panties, of stuffed animals hugged to death by the passion of the girls, of a crucifix draped with a brassiere, of gauzy chambers of ca...
Grief is natural,' she said. 'Overcoming it is a matter of choice.
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 believing that these black marks on white paper bear...