…how monstrous the people you loved could be.
Sometimes it takes more courage not to let yourself see. Sometimes knowledge is damaging - not enlightenment but enleadenment.
Sometimes people surprise the hell outta you. Sometimes they can tear your heart out and turn it to putty, can’t they?
Somewhere in a woman's room there is always something, an object, a detail, that is her, wholly and unapologetic.
Take as much care with words expressing your sentiments as you will crafting your doctoral dissertation.
To be sensitive is fine, but it makes day-to-day living- life -rather painful.
Those were the best nights of my life. I couldn’t say why, exactly, this was so—only that I knew that as an old woman, when I thought back to my youth, I’d remember these nights, sitting with these fi...
The Shadow is what people are hunting throughout the tale. Or else it can dog the hero, refusing to leave him alone. It's a potent force that bewitches as much as it torments. It can lead to hell or h...
The bad things that happen to you don’t have to mean anything at all. -Nora Halliday
The bad things that happen to you don’t have to mean anything at all.
The body shuts down when it’s too sad, said my dad.
The days shuffled by like bland schoolgirls. I didn’t notice their individual faces, only their basic uniform: day and night, day and night.I had no patience for showers or balanced meals. I did a lot...
The late great Horace Lloyd Swithin (1844-1917), British essayist, lecturer, satirist, and social observer, wrote in his autobiographical Appointments, 1890-1901 (1902), When one travels abroad, one d...
The million-dollar marital Band-Aid, never a wise idea.
The mountains hugged each other sternly, similar to the way men hugged other men, not letting their chests touch. Thin clouds hung around their necks, and the mountains farthest away, the ones passed...
The shelf life of any great love is fifteen years. After that you need a serious preservative, which can seriously harm your health.
The store was empty, without a single customer or employee. It appeared in the Internet age, pianos, like physical books, were fast becoming culturally extinct. They’d probably stay that way unless Ap...
The truth about what happens to us in this world keeps changing ... it never stops.
With the iPiano, anyone can be an iMozart. Then, you could compose your own iRequiem for your own iFuneral attended by millions of your iFriends who iLoved you.
There might be a Starbucks on every corner and an iPhone at every ear, but don’t worry, people are still fucking crazy.
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