At Ardennes she conceived a desire to strangle the young woman who prepped and held down garde manger. The woman, Becky Hemerling, was a culinary-institute grad with wavy blond hair and a petite flat...
As soon as she hit the Send button, she had a spasm of remorse; her interval between action and remorse was diminishing so rapidly that soon she might be all remorse, unable to act at all; which might...
As she left her parents' neighborhood, the houses got newer and bigger and boxier. Through windows with no mullions or fake plastic mullions she could see luminous screens, some giant, some miniature....
And yet: guilt must be the most monstrous of human quantities, because what I did to relieve my guilt then—stay in the marriage—was precisely the thing I felt guiltiest about later, when the marriage...
And the proof of his insanity? His belief that the U.S. government was a repressive conspiracy that muzzled radical opinion. Only an insane person would believe that! The Unabomber had really, really...
And the posture of the older oak trees reaching toward this sky had a jut, a wildness and entitlement, predating permanent settlement; memories of an unfenced world were written in the cursive of thei...
And meanwhile the sad truth was that not everyone could be extraordinary, not everyone could be extremely cool; because whom would this leave to be ordinary?
She felt that nothing could kill her hope now, nothing. She was seventy-five and she was going to make some changes in her life.
El amor verdadero altera el mundo del tecnoconsumismo, y a éste no le queda más remedio que alterar, a su vez, el amor.
لحسن الطالع؛ على كل من قراراته السيئة التي اتخذها، يتخذ قرارين أو ثلاثة قرارات جيدة.
Хора, прииждаха от всички страни. Перуански музиканти свиреха на хармоники и барабани на Юниън Скуеър. Пожарникари кимаха строго на събраните край паметната плоча за 11 септември пред участъка. Две же...
Η ταυτότητα αποτελείται από δύο αντιφατικές προσταγές. Από την προσταγή να διατηρήσεις μυστικά και από την προσταγή να τα κοινοποιήσεις. Πως ξέρεις οτι είσαι άνθρωπος διακριτός από τους άλλους; Με το...
That the more he rebelled against his parents and the more he made his life a reproach to theirs, the more deeply he rooted himself in the same childish relation to them.
Task
She approached the town of Pampa. This part of the Panhandle was so flat that it was paradoxically vertiginous, a two-dimensional planetary surface off which, having no trace of topography to hold on...
Prairie
Cut back on my own work, passing up an opportunity to follow the Dukakis campaign for Rolling Stone, and I was losing friends the way addicts do, by canceling dates at the last minute.
A marketing psychologist and who advised Chip, now, to wake up and do the same), he returned to his car and discovered that each of his plastic-wrapped cheeses was protected by its own antitheft badge...
[Patty's] Copernican wish to the be sun around which all things revolved
Zachary's mother, Lucy, waylaid him on the third-floor landing and offered, unsolicited, her opinion that the Traumatics had been the kind of adolescently posturing, angst-mongering boy group that nev...