There's a scabbard for every dagger,' the madam says in Turkish as the whores laugh.
The time has to be right and the heart willing.
The Lisbon girls were thirteen (Cecelia), and fourteen (Lux), and fifteen (Bonnie), and sixteen (Mary), and seventeen (Therese).
Some cities have fallen into ruin and some are built upon ruins but others contain their own ruins while still growing.
She was the still point in the turning world.
Paris was a museum displaying exactly itself.
Nosso único legado seria a deserção.
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.
It's then I smell smoke. You even smoke while you brush your teeth? She looks at me sideways. Menthol, she says.
It was like that Talking Head song. „And you may ask yourself, 'How did I get here?' … And you may tell yourself, 'This is not my beautiful house. And you may tell yourself, 'This is not my beautiful...
Here it comes, I thought. The first ex-boyfriend had been summoned. Soon the rest would follow. They would file around the table, presenting their deficiencies, telling of their addictions, their chea...
Aunt Zo, who never missed a chance to lament her marriage, had said at dinner in her comedienne’s voice, My husband. Always the bridesmaid and never the bride.
Някога есента започваше с всеобщ грохот високо в короните на дърветата. После листата се откъсваха и се понасяха към земята в безкрайно изобилие, кръжаха и плющяха, носени от теченията, сякаш светът с...
Who are you, anyway? Just someone who knows, from personal experience, how attractive it can be to think you can save somebody else by loving them. I could have sworn we just met, Madeleine said. And...
We Greeks get married in circles, to impress upon ourselves the essential matrimonial facts: that to be happy you have to find variety in repetition; that to go forward you have to come back where you...
Let's just say that during my travels I've become acquainted with interior states that collapse the distance between people. Sometimes, despite how far apart we are physically, I have drawn very close...
It was morning by the clock but deepest nighttime in his body.
I was young, and, despite dread, full of animal spirits; it was impossible for me to take a dark view too long.
Asked to translate different bits
Yes, you need a passport to prove to the world that you exist. The people at passport control, they cannot look at you and see you are a person. No! They have to look at a little photograph of you. Th...