Only the Lisbon house remained dark, a tunnel, an emptiness, past our smoke and flames.
My change from girl to boy was far less dramatic than the distance anybody travels from infancy to adulthood.
It was probably true that he objectified women. He thought about them all the time, didn't he? He looked at them a lot. And didn't all this thinking and looking involve their breasts and lips and legs...
I should also mention, with the vestigial pang of a once flat-chested girl, Desdemona's voluptuous figure.
Heartbreak is funny to everyone but the heartbroken.
Ha a feje megtelt zenével, végre el tudott szabadulni a testétől.
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.
All wisdom ends in paradox.
A tragédia se tornou difusa e universalizada.
Within the frosted bushes. It was only in
Wouldn't it be nice to be done with it? To be done with sex and longing? Mitchell could almost imagine pulling it off, sitting on a bridge at night with the Seine flowing by. He looked up at all the l...
When you're five, you've only been alive a couple thousand days. But by the time you're fifty, you've lived around twenty thousand days. So a day when you're five seems longer because it's a greater p...
There's a scabbard for every dagger,' the madam says in Turkish as the whores laugh.
Some cities have fallen into ruin and some are built upon ruins but others contain their own ruins while still growing.
Like the Sun Belt or the Bible Belt, there exists, on this multifarious earth of ours, a Hair Belt.
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...
English was what people who didn’t know what to major in majored in.
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...