When you can see the beauty of a tree, then you will know what love is.
We learned to be discreet. It helped that nobody really cares about anyone but themselves anyway.
We don't really believe in mowing the lawn; we do it only to avoid unnecessary engagement with the neighbors.
We are social animals, and everything we do is because of other people, because we love them, or because we don’t.
Many of the people there were in their twenties and thirties, and I wondered if they were Blanca or the friends of Blanca..There were also people in their forties, fifties, sixties, and seventies, and...
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 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 don’t believe in psychology, which says everything you do is because of yourself. That is so untrue. We are social animals, and everything we do is because of other people, because we love them, or...
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.
He called the feeling between us weird, and I had nothing to add. I kissed the backs of his legs and they sang. He reached around and pulled me down onto his back and I lay there, like on the warm san...
Have you ever wanted something very badly and then gotten it? Then you know that winning is many things, but it is never the thing you thought it would be.
Each word he said was boring, but collectively the melody of them lulled me. I tried to resist, but just the weight of him, in pounds and ounces, was a relief.
Each word he said was boring, but collectively the melody of them lulled me. I tried to resist, but just the weight of him, in pounds and ounces, was a relief. Always being the heaviest person in the...