Being an adult means accepting those situations where no action is possible.
Cramp began to knot my right calf and so with thumb and forefinger I pinched my nose shut with considerable force and held the pressure until the cramp faded away. A Chinese solution. Acupressure, jus...
Answer. It sounded too damned close.
I know just enough about myself to know I cannot settle for one of those simplifications which indignant people seize upon to make understandable a world too complex for their comprehension. Astrology...
Gian Gravina? ‘A bore is a person who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.’
For once her new placidity was impaired.
Anxious little smile that came and went—a mendicant
Then she would be that hostess in Houston and I would be that tanned one from Florida, a small memory of chlorinated pool water, fruit juice and gin, steak raw in the middle, and hearty rhythms in the...
That is the flaw in my personality. Vanity. And your flaw is sentimentality. They are the flaws which will inevitably kill us both.
She went inside and watched him walk back toward sixteen,
I had to make a guess about what would be right and what would be wrong for her. I had to take a risk. I based the risk on what I know of loneliness, of the need of closeness in loneliness. I stroked...
He was in a gigantic circular bed, with a pink canopy over it. In all the luxuriant femininity of that big bedroom, George looked shrunken and misplaced, like a dead worm in a birthday cake.
You’re so bright, Trav, and so intuitive about people. And you have … the gift of tenderness. And sympathy. You could be almost anything. Of course! I said, springing to my feet and beginning to pace...
Walk very lightly and carefully, Wade. Look behind every bush.
The world is full of damp rocks, with some very strange creatures hiding under them.
So!So?So I don't think you drove that one off. So it was her choice. So she isn't the kind who says it is for good and then come back all of a sudden. With her, gone is gone. So if I were you, I would...
She was styled for abundant lactation, and her uniform blouse was not.
Once, as she was getting sleepy, she looked somberly at me and said, I guess there are a lot of people like me. We react too soon or too late or not at all. We’re jumpy people, and we don’t seem to be...
New York is where it is going to begin, I think. You can see it coming. The insect experts have learned how it works with locusts. Until locust population reaches a certain density, they all act like...
My ward had arisen. She had slept so hard her eyes looked puffy, but she had acquainted herself with the equipment in my stainless steel galley, and she wore a pretty cotton dress, which hung just a l...