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...
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.
That was the deal basically: catatonia without; frenzy within
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.
In the end, it wasn't death that surprised her but the stubbornness of life.
I was young, and, despite dread, full of animal spirits; it was impossible for me to take a dark view too long.
Historical fact: people stopped being human in 1913.
He had the wit of a store mannequin.
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...
Úgy döntött, hogy nem ragadhat le, élni kell tovább.
Le monde est émotion à l’état pur, allant et venant entre ses créatures.
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...
We know now that most birth deformities result from the consanguinity of the parents.From the what? asked Desdemona.From families intermarrying.
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...
This is my country,' Lefty said, and to prove it, he did a very American thing: he reached under the counter and produced a pistol.
There comes a moment, when you get lost in the woods, when the woods begin to feel like home.