There was sex where you were looked in the eye and beautiful things were said to you, and then there was what Ira used to think of as yoo-hoo sex: where the other person seemed spirited away, not quit...
Tragedies, I was coming to realize through my daily studies in humanities both in and out of the classroom, were a luxury. They were constructions of an affluent society, full of sorrow and truth but...
Wake up one morning with a man you had thought you'd spend your life with, and realize, a rock in your gut, that you don't even like him. Spend a weepy afternoon in his bathroom, not coming out when h...
We are lucky simply to be alive together; why get differentiating and judgemental about who is here among us? Thank God there is anyone at all.
We curl up on the couch together, under a blanket, whisper I love you, I missed you, confusing tenses I think.
We don't do that in New York, rasped Odette. She cleared her throat.No? Pinky smiled and put his hand on her thigh.No, it's, um, the cash machines. You just… you wait at them. Forever. Your whole life...
We had put almost all of our possessions in storage, which was a metaphor for being twenty, as were so many things.
When she packed up to leave, she knew that she was saying goodbye to something important, which was not that bad, in a way, because it meant that at least you had said hello to it to begin with...
When they slept together, she almost cried. He was a kisser, and he kissed and kissed. It seemed the kindest thing that had ever happened to her. He kissed and whispered and brought her a large glass...
When you find out who you are, you will no longer be innocent. That will be sad for others to see. All that knowledge will show on your face and change it. But sad only for others, not for yourself. Y...
Which is it, she asked. Is it CLIToris or clotORis? I didn't know. Why didn't I know? It may depend on which you have, I said.
Win them with your beauty, but catch them off guard with your soul.
Years later, when they were killed in a car crash on the Farm to Market Road, and the Nell-that-never-lived died with them, Olena, numbly rearranging the letters of her own name on the envelopes of th...
You always say that, said Evan, but then you go on your trips and vacations and then you settle back into things and then you're quiet for a while and then you say you're fine, you're busy, and then a...
You are too gifted a person to be living in a state that borders on North Dakota.
You chose love like a belief, a faith, a place, a box for one's heart to knock against like a spook in the house.
You only live at once. Which seemed to her all the more reason to be careful, to take it easy, to have an ordinary life.
Zoe tried to sound like an older sister.
Such a life)engaged gross quantities of hope and despair and set them wildly side by side, like a Third World country of the heart.
A healthy death, like anything — job promotions or looking younger — was simply a matter of feeling good about yourself. Which is where the sedatives came in. Sedate as a mint, a woman could place a h...
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