I like to see people reunited, maybe that's a silly thing, but what can I say, I like to see people run to each other, I like the kissing and the crying, I like the impatience, the stories that the mo...
I have so much to say to you. I want to begin at the beginning, because that is what you deserve. I want to tell you everything, without leaving out a single detail. But where is the beginning? And wh...
I have often felt that my vegetarianism matters more to such people than it does to me.
I felt suddenly shy. I was not used to shy. I was used to shame. 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.
I don’t speak, he wrote, I’m sorry.
I did not need to know if he could love me.I needed to know if he could need me.
I bumped into something and was knocked to the ground. It took me several breaths to gather myself together, at first I thought I’d walked into a tree, but then that tree became a person, who was also...
I brought the birdcages to the windows.I opened the windows, and opened the birdcages.I poured the fish down the drain.I took the dogs and cats downstairs and removed their collars.I released the inse...
Human beings are the only animal that blushes, laughs, has religion, wages war, and kisses with lips. So in a way, the more you kiss with lips, the more human you are.
He wrote, I do not know how to live. I do not know either, but I am trying.I do not know how to try. There were things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him, so I buried them, and let t...
He would wake from sleep to miss the weight that never depress the bed next to him, remember in earnest the weight of gestures she never made, long for the un-weight of her un-arm slung over his too r...
He had a birthmark on the third toe of his left foot. He wasn’t able to urinate if someone could hear him. He thought cucumbers were good enough, but pickles were delicious—so absolutely delicious, in...
Feeling pain is still better than not feeling, isn't it?
Dogs are wonderful, and in many ways unique. But they are remarkably unremarkable in their intellectual and experiential capacities. Pigs are every bit as intelligent and feeling, by any sensible defi...
But when, at the end of my sophomore year, I became a philosophy major and started doing my first seriously pretentious thinking, I became a vegetarian again. The kind of willful forgetting that I was...
But not even to save your life? If nothing matters, there’s nothing to save.
But it was unnecessary.There would be other nights.And how can you say I love you to someone you love? I rolled on my side and fell asleep next to her.Here is the point of everything I've been trying...
But I do not do these things because we are a family. I do them because they are common decencies. That is an idiom that the hero taught me. I do them because I am not a big fucking asshole.
Brods 613 TraurigkeitenTRAURIGKEITEN DES KÖRPERS: Die Traurigkeit des Spiegels; die Traurigkeit, wie die Eltern oder nicht wie die Eltern auszusehen; die Traurigkeit, nicht zu wissen, ob der eigene Kö...
Benle mutluluğum arasına saplanan mesafe dünya değildi, bombalar ve yanan binalar değildi, bendim, düşünmemdi, bir şeyleri asla koyuveremiyor olmanın kanseriydi. Cehalet tam mutluluk mudur, bilmiyorum...