When asked why she had tried to kill herself, she said only, It was a mistake.
We realized that the version of the world they rendered for us was not the world they really believed in...
They thought depression was like bieng 'depressed'. They thought it was like being in a bad mood, only worse. Therefore, they tried to get him to snap out of it.
There’s a thing they’ve figured out about love. Scientifically. They’ve done studies to find out what keeps couples together. Do you know what it is? It isn’t getting along. Isn’t having money, or chi...
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.
It took courage to let things fall apart so beautifully.
In Madeleine's face was a stupidity Mitchell had never seen before. It was the stupidity of all normal people. It was the stupidity of the fortunate and the beautiful, of everybody who got what they w...
I remember the first time we took off our clothes in front of each other. It was like unwinding bandages. I was as much of a man as Olivia could bear at that point. I was her starter kit.
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.
He felt as if he were being violently emptied out, as if a big magnet were pulling his blood and fluids down into the earth. He was weeping again, unstoppably, his head like the chandelier in his gran...
Given the choice, a yeast cell's ideal state is to be diploid. But if it's in an environment with a lack of nutrients, you know what happens?The diploids break into haploids again. Solitary little hap...
German wasn’t good for conversation because you had to wait to the end of the sentence for the verb, and so couldn’t interrupt.
Find the Bad Guy means how, when you’re arguing with your spouse, both people are trying to win the argument. Who didn’t close the garage door? Who left the Bigfoot hair clump in the shower drain? Wha...
At that moment Mr. Lisbon had the feeling that he didn't know who she was, that children were only strangers you agreed to live with, and he reached out in order to meet her for the first time.
As much as he hated his lithium, here it was his friend. Leonard could feel the huge tide of sadness waiting to rush over him. But there was an invisible barrier keeping the full reality of it from to...
And so it began. He played Begin the Beguine against Tessie’s collarbone. He played Moonface against her smooth cheeks. Pressing the clarinet right up against the red toenails that had so dazzled him,...
But what humans forget, cells remember. The body, that elephant
But this is all chasing after the wind. The essence of the suicides consisted not of sadness or mystery but simple selfishness. The girls took into their own hands decisions better left to God. They b...
Our job was merely to create the noise that seemed to fascinate them.
You're a stone fox, he said, and took off.