You can embark on new and steeper versions of your old sin, you know, and cry tears doing it that are genuine as any.
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.
Quixotically.
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...
Dewey Hall was the only building on campus not made of brick, and the tornado came for it in absolute maturity, no umbilical growth now but a strong slender lady hip-walking through campus--past the s...
You can embark on new and steeper versions of your old sins, you know, and cry tears while doing it that are genuine as any.
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...
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.
They came one at a time or in shy small groups. I remember when sea-kindly showed up, a sentimental favorite, followed by desiccated and massive. Brusque appeared all by itself, which seemed apt; merr...
From my first breath in this world, all I wanted was a good set of lungs and air to fill them with... p 1
Not anymore—not exactly. If I’d had more words, I’d have described Greenstone’s last operational motel, the Voyageur, a peeling L-shaped heap with scraggy whirlwinds of litter roaming the parking lot....
What makes a Samaritan good is the possibility of the lunge.
Sometimes heroism is nothing more than patience, curiosity, and a refusal to panic.
This was maybe best of all. I never once expected to be someone's nice surprise.
Nothing could quiet a happy crowd of kids like Mr. Holgren's unannounced appearance -- he loved superintending; he was made for it. So when he marched in that morning with a determined look on his fac...
Waltzer was stirred by the boy’s assurance under stress. Waltzer believed in invented destiny and invented some then and there.
I breathe deeply, and certainty enters into me like light, like a piece of science, and curious music seems to hum inside my fingers.Is there a single person on whom I can press belief?No sir.All I ca...
I don’t have the gift to aptly describe the rest of that evening, except to say it was a Christmas Eve beyond all gasping wishes,
I experienced an unspooling sense of freedom—genuine antagonism is something I’ve rarely encountered, and it felt good to respond with honesty instead of obsequious scraping.
I felt laden. Air itself has weight and mass, and Kansas had the most air of anywhere I'd ever been.
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