Rural life in the winter months was rugged: snow-blurred and alcohol-fueled, violent and fast.
Old Lowji’s nasty remark would haunt Farrokh forever: Immigrants are immigrants all their lives! Once someone makes such a negative pronouncement, you might refute it but you never forget it; some ide...
Jenny felt that her education was merely a polite way to bide time, as if she were really a cow, being prepared only for the insertion of the device for artificial insemination. Her
It’s as if you’ve been shot in the heart, Bill, but you’re unaware of the hole or the loss of blood. I doubt you even heard the shot!
It had been an evening in the empty dance hall when not even that depth of stone and the constant stirring of the ceiling fans could cool the stifling and humid night air, which had entered the Duckwo...
I'm sure I'll have more to say about the penis word.
I read that part over and over again, until I felt I had the pronunciation right. There was quite a good pencil drawing of a phoenix, that mythical bird that was supposed
I have digressed, which is also the kind of writer I would become.
I didn't try to say the word for Elaine. Cock, I said to her.
Hardy’s The Mayor of Casterbridge.
Everyone has a right to be a little happy, asshole.
Don’t forget: Miss Frost was an older woman, and that goes a long way with boys—even if the older woman has a penis!
Did the rhythm of the train on the tracks somehow unravel her and make her behave out of character? Was she altered in transit, when her feet were not upon the ground?
David Copperfield.
Choć już tyle razy przeżyłem mękę i śmierć Chrystusa, nieodmiennie niepokoję się o Jego zmartwychwstanie - jestem przerażony, że w tym roku się to nie uda.
Buster was queer as a cat fart.
As for my faith: I've become my father's son-that is, I've become the kind of believer that Pastor Merrill used to be. Doubt one minute, faith the next-sometimes inspired, sometimes in despair. Canon...
All men are liars, said Roberta Muldoon, who knew this was true because she had once been a man.
… and so he tried to accept the ache in his heart as what Dr. Larch would call the common symptoms of normal life.
Дженни Гарп понимала, что в мире представлений ее отца мы должны обладать определенным запасом энергии. Ее знаменитая бабка Дженни Филдз когда-то воспринимала (и классифицировала) людей как «внешников...