This is milk that I am feeding you. It comes from Mordechai the milkman, whom you will meet one day. He gets the milk from a cow, which is a very strange and troubling thing if you think about it, so...
They reciprocated the great and saving lie--that our love for things is greater than our lover for our love for things--willfully playing the parts they wrote for themselves, willfully creating and be...
There is no dead matter, he taught us, lifelessness is only a disguise his voice sank pressed against the wall, We have lived for too long. We wish. We wish; we want, we want we want We are not, he sa...
There are times when one needs to disappear while in the living room, and sometimes one simply wants to disappear.
Their relationship was defined not by what they could share, but what they couldn’t. Between any two beings there is a unique, uncrossable distance, an unenterable sanctuary. Sometimes it takes the sh...
The worst it got was near the end. A lot of people died right at the end, and I didn't know if I could make it another day. A farmer, a Russian, God bless him, he saw my condition, and he went into hi...
The very genetics of chickens, along with their feed and environment, were now intensively manipulated to produce either excessive amounts of eggs (layers) or flesh, especially breasts (broilers). Fro...
The secret was a hole in the middle of me that every happy thing fell into.
The only thing more painful than being an active forgetter is to be an inert rememberer.
The letter was destroyed, but its final paragraph is inside of me. She wrote, I wish I could be a girl again, with the chance to live my life again. I have suffered so much more than I needed to. And...
The end of suffering does not justify the suffering, what a mess I am, I thought, what a fool, how foolish and narrow, how worthless, how pinched and pathetic, how helpless.
The difference between conceding and accepting is depression.
The appearance was misleading- human dreams; rubbish heaps abundant yet ephemeral sudden and splendid, only to wilt and perish
The apartment had never been darker.I turned on the lamp.It became bright around us.The apartment became darker.
The French, who love their dogs, sometimes eat their horses. The Spanish, who love their horses, sometimes eat their cows. The Indians, who love their cows, sometimes eat their dogs.
That's all anyone wants from anyone else, not love itself but the knowledge that the love is there.
Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want. Shame is when you turn your head away from something you do not want.
She wanted nothing more than someone to miss, to touch, with whom to speak like a child, with whom to be a child.
She had been in love so many times that she began to suspect she was not falling in love, but rather doing something much more ordinary
SADNESSES OF THE COVENANT: Sadness of God's love; Sadness of God's back [sic]; Favourite-child sadness; Sadness of b[ein]g sad in front of one's God; Sadness of the opposite of belief [sic]; What if?...