To be inclusive you must accommodate different levels of sophistication.
Though at this moment she felt abused, abandoned, and ashamed of herself, Madeleine knew that she was still young, that she had her whole life ahead of her--a life in which, if she persevered, she mig...
There comes a moment, when you get lost in the woods, when the woods begin to feel like home.
The window was still open, Mr Lisbon said. I don’t think we’d ever remembered to shut it. It was all clear to me. I knew I had to close that window or else she’d go on jumping out of it forever.
The television replaced the sound of conversation that was missing from my grandparents' lives.
Tessie allowed Milton to press his clarinet to her skin and fill her body with music. At first it only tickled her. But after a while the notes spread deeper into her body. She felt the vibrations pen...
On the morning the last Lisbon daughter took her turn at suicide—it was Mary this time, and sleeping pills, like Therese—the two paramedics arrived at the house knowing exactly where the knife drawer...
Néha észre se vesszük, ami majd kiböki a szemünket.
My goal in life is to become an adjective, Leonard said. People would go around saying, 'That was so Bankheadian.' Or, 'A little too Bankheadian for my taste.
Luce even analyzed my prose style to see if I wrote in a linear, masculine way, or in a circular, feminine one.
Like the Sun Belt or the Bible Belt, there exists, on this multifarious earth of ours, a Hair Belt.
It was possible to feel superior to other people and feel like a misfit at the same time.
Is there anything as incredible as the love story of your own parents?
In the end, it wasn't death that surprised her but the stubbornness of life.
I went to church. It didn’t help. In those days that was the best place to meet a girlfriend. In church! All of us praying to be different.
Great discoveries, whether of silk or gravity, are always windfalls. They happen to people loafing under trees.
For the first time ever we sympathized with the President because we saw how wildly our sphere of influence was misrepresented by those in no position to know what was going on.
Dr. Armonson stitched up her wrist wounds. Within five minutes of the transfusion he declared her out of danger. Chucking her under the chin, he said, What are you doing here, honey? You're not even o...
But as I peeked at my brother's inert body....I was aware only of what a strange thing it was to be male. Society discriminated against women, no question. But what about the discrimination of being s...
Le monde est émotion à l’état pur, allant et venant entre ses créatures.