Parents are supposed to pass down physical traits to their children, but it’s my belief that all sorts of other things get passed down, too: motifs, scenarios, even fates.
Néha észre se vesszük, ami majd kiböki a szemünket.
It took courage to let things fall apart so beautifully.
Household objects lost meaning. A bedside clock became a hunk of molded plastic, telling something called time, in a world marking its passage for some reason.
Corpul ii era ca o tulpina, sustinand laleaua creierului sau.
Biosynthesis and peripheral action of testosterone,
We knew, finally, that the girls were really women in disguise, that they understood love and even death, and that our job was merely to create the noise that seemed to fascinate them.
They lined you up in kindergarten, alphabetically. On fourth-grade field trips you took your partner’s hand to push past the musk ox or the steam turbine. School was a perpetual lineup, ending in this...
The matter with us is you.
She'd become an English major for the purest and dullest of reasons: because she loved to read.
It’s a kind of fugue state, anyway, early sex.
Androgynous
We realized that the version of the world [our parents] 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 dam...
The trees like lungs filling with airMy sister, the mean one, pulling my hair
The great epics sang of war, the novel of marriage.
Still point of the turning world.
Ma már nem érdekel az örökké tartó hírnév, és az se, hogy tökéletes könyvet írjak. Megelégszem azzal, ha csak emléket állít képtelen életemnek.
It's often said that a traumatic experience early in life marks a person forever, pulls her out of line, saying, Stay there. Don't move.
His point, again and again, was that truth wasn’t the property of any one faith and that, if you looked closely, you found a ground where they all converged.
Our job was merely to create the noise that seemed to fascinate them.