It's healthy to say uncle when your bone's about to break.
It was true that Al had asked her to move the jars and magazines, and there was probably a word for the way she'd stepped around those jars and magazines for the last eleven days, often nearly stumbli...
In effetti quando faceva compere in un grande magazzino i vestiti e gli utensili che non le sembravano connotanti risultavano sempre i più costosi nel loro genere. Chiaramente, se eri abbastanza ricco...
How well aware the body was of what it wanted. How quickly it gleaned the news it could use.
His feeling of having crashed did not consist of envy, exactly, or even entirely of having outlived himself. It was more like despair about the world's splinteredness. The nation was fighting ugly gro...
He had shining dark eyes and an oboe voice and mink-soft hair and could seem, even to Gary, more sentient animal than little boy.
He had a happy canine way of seeking approval without seeming insecure.
Have you ever been tempted to leave a thought unspoken? I’m a writer, baby. Voicing thought is what I’m poorly paid and uncharitably reviewed for.
Even harder to admit is how depressed I was. As the social stigma of depression disappears, the aesthetic stigma increases. It’s not just that depression has become fashionable to the point of banalit...
El amor consiste en una empatía ilimitada, surgida de lo que el corazón nos revela, que el otro es tan real como nosotros. Y por eso el amor, según lo entiendo, siempre es concreto. Intentar amar a to...
Don't you love me, Mother? Cornered by the question, she agreed to try to help him. Before she left the church, it seemed necessary to both of them that they embrace, and what an odd embrace it was, w...
Does the world really need more amateur photographs of giraffes?
Deploring other people--their lack of perfection--had always been our sport.
D'où venait l'apitoiement sur soi ? Cette quantité extraordinaire d'apitoiement sur soi ? Selon presque tous les critères possibles, elle menait une vie très heureuse. Elle avait toutes ses journées p...
Cuando te quedas en tu habitación y te encolerizas o adoptas una actitud de desdén o te encoges de hombros, como hice muchos años, el mundo y sus problemas te intimidan de manera extraordinaria. Pero...
But she was seventeen now and not actually dumb. She knew that you could love somebody more than anything and still not love the person all that much, if you were busy with other things.
But in the world of consumer advertising and consumer purchasing, no evil is moral. The evils consist of high prices, inconvenience, lack of choice, lack of privacy, heartburn, hair loss, slippery roa...
As one anthropologist pointed out to me, trauma is usually a group experience, so trauma recovery should be a group experience as well. But in our society it’s not.
As if sustained and too-direct contact with time's raw passage could scar the nerves permanently, like staring at the sun.
Around her ribs and waist were curves of the kind that wind carves in snowdrifts.