Nolite te bastardes carborundorum. Don't let the bastards grind you down.
No mother is ever, completely, a child's idea of what a mother should be, and I suppose it works the other way around as well. But despite everything, we didn't do too badly by one another, we did as...
Night falls. Or has fallen. Why is it that night falls, instead of rising, like the dawn?
Nature demands variety, for men. It stands to reason, it's a part of the procreational strategy. It's Nature's Plan. Women know that instinctively. Why did they buy so many different clothes, in the o...
More and more I feel like a letter—deposited here, collected there. But a letter addressed to no one.
Messy love is better than none,I guess. I'm no authorityon sane living.Which is all trueand no hep at all, becausethis form of love is like the painof childbirth: so intenseit's hard to remember after...
Maybe sadness was a kind of hunger, she thought. Maybe the two went together.
Maybe night falls because it's heavy, a thick curtain pulled up over the eyes.
Like the trains, she's never on time and always departing.
Kick in the door, and what did I tell you? Caught in the act, sinfully Scrabbling. Quick, eat those words.
Keep calm, they said on television. Everything is under control. I was stunned. Everyone was, I know that. It was hard to believe. The entire government, gone like that. How did they get in, how did i...
Just what the doctor ordered, he says. A bottle of lemonade, a hard-boiled egg, and Thou.
Just remember, dear Friends, What am I living for and what am I dying for are the same question.
I’m beginning to feel that I’ve discovered something worth knowing. There’s a way out of places you want to leave, but can’t. Fainting is like stepping sideways, out of your own body, out of time or i...
It’s the unbroken calm, both within and without, that is getting to her. Real events happen to people, she thinks, why not me? And then there’s her conviction that they are happening, all around her,...
It's possible to go so far in, so far down and back, they could never get you out.
It's like the Vatican's porn collection, Zeb told her. Safe in our hands.
It was true, I took too much for granted; I trusted fate, back then.
It was the feet they'd do, for a first offense. They used steel cables, frayed at the ends. After
It was hard to believe. The entire government, gone like that. How did they get in, how did it happen? That was when they suspended the Constitution.