Her heart was full and her senses were sharp, but her head felt liable to burst in the vacuum of her solitude.
He'd lost track of what he wanted, and since who a person was was what a person wanted, you could say that he'd lost track of himself.
He reminded me of a beaver, all uncorrected overbite and senseless industry.
He knows how love blinds people to the truth about the one they are in love with.
For three years, all through junior high, my social death was grossly overdetermined. I had a large vocabulary, a giddily squeaking voice, horn-rimmed glasses, poor arm strength, too-obvious approval...
Everyone thinks they have strict limits, she said, until they cross them.
Don't talk to me about hatred if you haven't been married.
Cooks were the mitochondria of humanity; they had their own separate DNA, they floated in a cell and powered it but were not really of it.
Chipper intuited that this feeling of futility would be a fixture in his life. A dull waiting and then a broken promise, a panicked realization of how late it was.This futility had let's call it a fla...
Can you imagine going to bed with Kierkegaard? He'd never stop asking, 'Can I do this to you? Is this okay?
Attempting to write an honest essay doesn't alter the multiplicity of my selves. What changes, if I take the time to stop and measure, is that my multi-selved identity acquires substance.
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...
A source of continual embarrassment along the American frontier—from the late 1600s until the end of the Indian Wars, in the 1890s—was a phenomenon known as the White Indians. The term referred to whi...
A contact low.
A cascade of reactions initiated by Factor 6 relaxed his tear valves and sent a wave of nausea down his vagus: a sense that he survived from day to day by distracting himself from underground truths t...
The personality susceptible to the dream of limitless freedom is a personality also prone, should the dream ever sour, to misanthropy and rage.)
لحسن الطالع؛ على كل من قراراته السيئة التي اتخذها، يتخذ قرارين أو ثلاثة قرارات جيدة.
А това с кредитните карти - продължи Пати. - Използват кредитни карти дори и само за пакетче дъвки. Парите в брой са толкова демоде! Ако плащаш в брой, трябва поне да можеш да събираш и изваждаш. Да о...
Her life was already so fraught with unpleasantnesses that she’d adopted the strategy of delaying encounters with them as long as possible, even when the delay made it likely that they would be even m...