After a minute a willowy woman with a baby boy came out. The baby was swinging a crystal from a string. I checked to see if he and I had a special connection that was greater than his bond with his mo...
We really wanted to know all the unknowable things about each other and how we were the same and how we were different, if we even were, maybe nobody is.
We are social animals, and everything we do is because of other people, because we love them, or because we don’t.
There were a series of closing kisses, goodbye kisses, kisses placed like lids on boxes—then the lid would pop off and need to be replaced. There, this is the final kiss—no, this is the final kiss. Th...
Teachers of subjects that this person wasn't even good at are kissing this person and renouncing the very subjects they taught. Math teachers are saying that math was just a funny way of saying I love...
LA isn’t a walking city, or a subway city, so if someone isn’t in my house or my car we’ll never be together, not even for a moment. And just to be absolutely sure of that, when I leave my car my iPho...
It wasn't good, he wasn't good, he did not have good intentions. I stood there, and he stood there. He breathed out the bitter air that makes women doubt everything, and I breathed it in, as I had alw...
It was like a dream, where the most unlikely person can’t get enough of you- a movie star or someone’s husband. How can this be? But the attraction is mutual and undeniable; it is the reason for itsel...
If you were wise enough to know that this life would consist mostly of letting go of things you wanted, then why not get good at the letting go, rather than the trying to have?
I would always be earthbound; he hadn’t robbed me of my ability to fly or to live forever. I appreciated nuns now, not the conscripted kind, but modern women who chose it. If you were wise enough to k...
I went to work the next day out of curiosity, as people return to their villages after the war to see what is left.
I was never good at jumping in, letting go of one element and embracing another.
I was going to die and it was taking forever.
I was an angel looking down into the world, into one car on the world, into two members of mankind, into their souls, and into the place behind their souls: the void.
I was actually writhing in heartache, as if I were a single muscle whose purpose was to mourn.
I typed royal family into a dream-interpretation website, but they didn't have that in their database, so then I typed butt and hit interpret, and this came back: To see your buttocks in your dream re...
I have to do it to day. It's the first day of the rest of my life.Oh. I had a day like that last week.Really? What happened?I woke up and thought, This is the first day of the rest of my life.Then wha...
I had forgotten about the baby. Until then she had been giving birth to birth—to contractions and noises and liquids. There was someone in there. We
I cried in English, I cried in French, I cried in all the languages, because tears are the same all around the world. Esperanto.
I always had to resist the urge to go to him like a wife, as if we’d already been a couple for a hundred thousand lifetimes. Caveman and cavewoman. King and queen. Nuns