Her eyes watered and she was a foot taller than any of her sisters, mostly because of the length of her neck which would one day hang from the end of a rope.
He had been a teacher so long he had a sink in his room.
College feminists made fun of skyscrapers, saying they were phallic symbols. They said the same thing about space rockets, even though, if you stopped to think about it, rockets were shaped the way th...
Whatever happened now would become the truth, that whatever he seemed to be would become what he was - already an American, in other words.
This can't be true but I remember it.
Hogy az emberek miért pont ahhoz kötik az életüket, akikhez aztán kötik, azt többnyire épp az érintettek értik a legkevésbé.
He hadn't suffered the eternity of the ring about to be picked up, didn't know the heart rush of hearing that incomparable voice suddenly linked with his own, the sense it gave of being too close to e...
Emotions, in my experience, aren't covered by single words.I don't believe in sadness, joy, or regret.Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that is oversimplifies feeling. I'd like...
Asked to translate different bits
Winter is the season of alcoholism and despair.
Though auditing a class at the Sorbonne taught by Luce Irigaray and titled The Mother-Daughter Relationship: The Darkest of Dark Continents, Claire had followed maternal example by setting out guest t...
They're just memories now. Time to write them off.
Don't waste your time on life.
What my could never understand about America was why everyone pretended to be happy all the time.
We were reckless with the implications
The time has to be right and the heart willing.
But it’s mostly the act itself that brings relief, the self-forgetfulness, the diving and plunging into other lives.
Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind.
We Greeks are a moody people. Suicide makes sense to us. Putting up Christmas lights after your own daughter does it—that makes no sense. What my could never understand about America was why everyone...
She thought a writer should work harder writing a book than she did reading it.