Freaky kids like us can’t ever be normal- Tyler says smugly- Our generation is some new kind of evolutionary development, my shrink says- Normal is just average, not cool. My latest diagnosis is A.P.M...
For what is delusion but the prelude to hurt. And what is hurt but the prelude to rage.
For once a truth is known it cannot be unknown, it can only be denied.
For The Accursed is intended as a work of inquiring moral complexity, and not a sensationalist rehashing of an old, dread scandal far better left to molder in the grave!
The relationship between parents and children, but especially between mothers and daughters, is tremendously powerful, scarcely to be comprehended in any rational way.
Primarily, 'Black Girl/White Girl' is the story of two very different, yet somehow 'fated' girls; for Genna, her 'friendship' with Minette is the most haunting of her life, though it is one-sided and...
And this is the forbidden truth, the unspeakable taboo - that evil is not always repellent but frequently attractive; that it has the power to make of us not simply victims, as nature and accident do,...
If food is poetry, is not poetry also food?
Of all psychic conditions, anxiety verging upon paranoia/hysteria is perhaps the most contagious, even among men.
The distinction between assistant and intern is a simple one: assistants are paid, interns are not.But of course interns are paid, in experience.
That glass sliver in the heart. Amid a fluttery-delicious Benzedrine rush, virtually every remark made to you is freighted with destiny, a sweet-painful stab in the heart. And Benzedrine and champagne...
Silence has gathered around me like a thick, viscous water filling in a muddy footprint. Early evening, swollen sky like an eye that
Legs was always proud even before FOXFIRE, that’s the primary fact about Legs Sadovsky: pride.
How ironic, it seemed to me, yet, perhaps, how symbolic, that in our age of rapid mass production and the easy proliferation of consumer products, the richness and diversity of the American literary i...
How crucial for us to rehearse the future, in words.Never to doubt that you will live to utter them.Never to doubt that you will tell .
Ever rising like the souls of the damned seeking salvation, Ariah said to Dirk Burnaby, in one of her rare moments of noticing him. Her fixed, wistful smile made him shudder.)
As a farm girl, even when I was quite young, I had my 'farm chores' - but I had time also to be alone, to explore the fields, woods and creek side. And to read.
My theory is that literature is essential to society in the way that dreams are essential to our lives. We can't live without dreaming - as we can't live without sleep. We are 'conscious' beings for o...
Memory blurs, that's the point. If memory didn't blur you wouldn't have the fool's courage to do things again, again, again, that tear you apart.
Yet there was something gratifyingly real about being called a bitch, a whore, a blond tramp. Where so much was a dreamy haze, anything promising to be real was bracing.