I remember it as October days are always remembered, cloudless, maple-flavored, the air gold and so clean it quivers.
There is no better sound than whom you adore when they are sleepy and pleased
One of her recent letters asks, Is it hubris to believe we all live epics? (Perhaps it is, but I suspect she’s not actually counting on me for an answer.)
Memory’s oldest trick is convincing us of its accuracy.
Don't you ever doubt it? Davy asked.And in fact I have. And perhaps will again. But here is what happens. I look out the window at the red farm--for here we live, Sara and I, in a new house across the...
This was maybe best of all. I never once expected to be someone's nice surprise.
A veteran bystander to hard moments, I knew they went by quicker when you were unconscious.
Although saying this, I realize it may have been illusory. Memory’s oldest trick is convincing us of its accuracy.
At first I thought common nouns were hardest hit, coffee and doorway and so on, but it soon became clear that the missing were mostly adjectives.
It’s difficult to do productive work and fume simultaneously—the labor dissipates your righteous steam—so
Sometimes heroism is nothing more than patience, curiosity, and a refusal to panic.
Quixotically.
Was working the cold up
Many a night I woke to the murmer of paper and knew (Dad) was up, sitting in the kitchen with frayed King James - oh, but he worked that book; he held to it like a rope ladder.
Even as we sat, prying lids off milk bottles, we could hear the persecuted cooks banging around back in the kitchen, grandmas barking at each other, preparing the daily grotesque.
Waltzer was stirred by the boy’s assurance under stress. Waltzer believed in invented destiny and invented some then and there.
Dudgeon
From my first breath in this world, all I wanted was a good set of lungs and air to fill them with... p 1
It’s never been hard for me to fall in love, a quality that has yet to simplify one single day of my life.
Then Israel Finch got to his feet and pointed the light at Dolly. He told Tommy to hold her arms, and Tommy roared as if they were the funniest words in his reduced language. Realizing his cut wasn’t...
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