She wore a lot of gray-green corduroy. She had been under the impression that it brought out her eyes, those shy stars.
Küçük bir sinek vızlayıp kulağımın yanından geçti, sonra kayboldu. Daha önce hiç Noel'de sinek görmemiştim; Sanat 102 dersinde hissetmemiz öğretildiği gibi, iki tanıdık şeyin beklenmedik şekilde yan y...
So I needed to be womanised. I was losing my sheen.
She would try to live life one day at a time, like an alcoholic--drink, don't drink, drink. Perhaps she should take drugs.
Observing others go through them, he used to admire midlife crises, the courage and shamelessness and existential daring of them, but after he'd watched his own wife, a respectable nursery school teac...
It's two against one out here; we just keep taking turns.
I feel his lack of love for me.
For driving, a January thaw was always preferable to actual ice, but when it was over things froze more treacherously than before. And in its melting and condensing the roadside snow turned to clumps...
All the world's a stage we're going through.
It would be a combination of comfort and surprise an audience might appreciate.
When affection fell on its ass, politeness could step up.
We used awesome the way the British used brilliant: for anything at all. Perhaps . . . it was a kind of antidepressant: inflated rhetoric to keep the sorry truth at bay.
The key to marriage, she concluded, was just not to take the thing too personally.
That's not the one you were thinking of? No. There was accusation in her voice. Mine was different,
Sometimes it seemed that she and rudy were two people attempting to tango, sweating and trying, long after the orchestra had grown tired, long after everyone else had gone home.
Life is sad. Here is someone.
I'm going to marry you till you puke.
I would look out upon the wildflowers, the mulch of swamps and leaves, the spring mosses greening on the rocks, or the boulderous mountains of street-black snow, whatever season it happened to be- my...
I wondered about the half-life of regret.
He had never been involved with the mentally ill before, but he now felt more than ever that there should be strong international laws against them being too good-looking.