Philosophize: you are a mistress, part of a great hysterical you mean historical tradition.
It's bad enough when they refer to medical science as 'an inexact science,' says the Mother. But when they start referring to it as 'an art,' I get extremely nervous.
I want to pretend there's such a thing as requited love. As the endurance of love.
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...
She recognized the panic at even a moment's boredom that all these piles contained, as well as the unreasonable hopefulness regarding time.
Decide that you like college life. In your dorm you meet many nice people. Some are smarter than you. And some, you notice, are dumber than you. You will continue, unfortunately, to view the world in...
Philosophers are good at parties but not for cleaning up after.
Every family is a family of alligators.
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...
There is something comforting, thinks Mack, in embracing someone the same size as you.
I said nothing. If she wasn't careful, everyone would rush out of her life, life out of a burning building.
She had to learn not to be afraid of a man, the way, in your childhood, you learned not to be afraid of an earthworm or a bug. Often, when she spoke to men at parties, she rushed things in her mind. A...
It is unacceptable, all the stunned and anxious missing a person is asked to endure in life. It is not to be endured, not really.
Irrigation sprinklers like the skeletons of brontosauruses. -Tassie Keltjin
I would be a genius now, Quilty has said three times already, if only I’d memorized Shakespeare instead of Lulu. If only, says Mack. Mack himself would be a genius now if only he had been born a compl...
I was Baptist and had always prayed, in a damp squint, for things not to happen. Sils was a Catholic, and so she prayed for things to happen, for things to come true. She prayed for love here and now....
Quilty grimaces. I don’t like what comes after ‘dicker.’ What is that? Quilty sighs. Dickest. I mean, really: it’s not a contest!
I can't believe I just asked you to hold my hand,' said Ira, but Mike had already taken it.
When I was little, I didn’t understand that you could change a few sounds in a name or a phrase and have it mean something entirely different. When I told teachers my name was Benna and they said, Don...
The situation was not easy for her, they knew. Once, at the start of last semester, she had skipped into her lecture hall singing Getting to Know You - both verses. At the request of the dean the chai...
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