Я впервые занималась любовью. Интересно, знал ли он об этом? Это было все равно как плакать. Я подумала: Зачем люди вообще занимаются любовью?
Утром в приступе жгучей жалости к самому себе я вдруг осознал, как осознают в минуты озарения простое решение неразрешимой задачи: дальше откладывать нельзя.
Короче, самое крутое, что я вычитал в National Geographic, это что число людей, живущих сейчас на земле, больше, чем число умерших за всю историю человечества. Другими словами, если все одновременно з...
Život mi je kao djevojčici bio glazba koja se neprestano pojačavala.Sve me moglo dirnuti.Pas koji prati neznanca.Od toga sam osjećala toliko mnogo.Kalendar koji prikazuje pogrešan mjesec.Zbog toga sam...
There’s going to come a time when we won’t speak for days on end. There won’t. There will. Every parent thinks it will never happen to them, but it happens to everyone.
It broke my heart into more pieces than my heart was made of,
Bombs poured down from the sky exploding across trachimbrod in bursts of light and heat those watching the festivities hollered ran frantically they jumped into the bubbling splashing frantically dyna...
And making her happy is another one of my raisons d'être.
Almost all of the shtetl’s three hundred–odd citizens had gathered to debate that about which they knew nothing. The less a citizen knew, the more adamantly he or she argued. There was nothing new in...
Ze wil weten of ik van haar hou, dat is eigenlijk het enige wat de ene mens van de ander wil, het gaat niet om de liefde op zich, maar om het idee dat de liefde er is, zoiets als nieuwe batterijen in...
Your train ride appeased you? I asked. Oh, God, he said, twenty-six hours, fucking unbelievable. This girl Unbelievable must be very majestic, I thought.
You are the only one who has understood even a whisper of me, and I will tell you that I am the only person who has understood even a whisper of you.
You are a schmuck, I informed the hero. You’re not using the word correctly, he said. Yes I am, I said.
Yet we wanted human feeling, gestures free from suspicion, some sympathetic if stammering articulation, half syllables of mystification, a temporary eternal.
When we walk around thinking we have a greater right to eat an animal than the animal has a right to live without suffering, it’s corrupting. I’m not speculating. This is our reality. Look at what fac...
When we lift our forks, we hang our hats somewhere. We set ourselves in one relationship or another to farmed animals, farm-workers, national economies, and global markets. Not making a decision--eati...
When the pages are in the typewriter, I can't see his face.In that way i am choosing you over him.I don't need to see him.I don't need to know if he is looking up at me.It's not even that I trust him...
When I was old enough to take baths in the bathtub, and to know I had a penis and a scrotum and everything, I asked her not to sit in the room with me. Why not? Privacy. Privacy from what? From me? I...
What’s the kindest thing you almost did? Is your fear of insomnia stronger than your fear of what awoke you? Are bonsai cruel? Do you love what you love, or just the feeling? Your earliest memories: d...
What's it about? she asked.It's about love.She laughed. They're all about love.