There was nowhere to go that wouldn't be me.
The mouth is small but well shaped, kissable, musical
Scars crossed her welded wrists.
Paris was a museum displaying exactly itself.
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...
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...
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.
General John L. Throckmorton set up the headquarters of the 101st Airborne at Southeastern High, where my parents had gone to school.
Bármerre menekültem is, mindenütt téged láttalak magam előtt.
But what humans forget, cells remember. The body, that elephant
We knew the pain of winter rushing up your skirt, and the ache of keeping your knees together in class, and how drab and infuriating it was to jump rope while the boys played baseball. We could never...
Pulled out a blue bandanna,
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...
Une femme n'est pas une pastèque dans laquelle on fait un trou pour voir si elles est sucrée.
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...
Parties bring my misantrophy into focus.
Lux spent the ride dialing the radio for her favorite song. It makes me crazy, she said. You know they're playing it somewhere, but you have to find it.
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.