Muscularity, made more pronounced by her gauntness, and the near-inanimate
You're never rude,' she said, smiling, 'and I think it's good to be touchy sometimes. It means you care.
You're a watchful guy. You know where that comes from? I shook my head. It comes from feeling out of place, he said. Believe me. I know
The end of the world can be cozy at times.
Saeed and Nadia knew what the buildup to conflict felt like, and so the feeling that hung over London was not new to them, and they faced it not with bravery, exactly, and not with panic either, not m...
Quando pregava, entrava in contatto coi suoi genitori, con cui altrimenti non avrebbe più potuto entrare in contatto, ed entrava in contatto con la sensazione che siamo tutti figli che abbiamo perso i...
Language lacks the power to describe Faith.
It's easy to be an idealist when you drive a Pajero.
It has been said that depression is a failure to imagine a plausible desirable future for oneself,
It has been said that depression is a failure to imagine a plausible desirable future for oneself, and, not just in Marin, but in the whole region, in the Bay Area, and in many other places too, place...
A woman walks by the gate, leading a little boy with a balloon of hunger in his belly and hair bleached by malnutrition.
Status, as in any traditional, class-conscious society, declines more slowly than wealth.
The end of a couple is like a death, and the notion of death, of temporariness, can remind us of the value of things,
A couple that was long and unhappily married, a couple that made out of opportunities for joy, misery.
When the uncertain future becomes the past, the past in turn becomes uncertain.
They were achingly beautiful, these ghostly cities—New York, Rio, Shanghai, Paris—under their stains of stars, images as though from an epoch before electricity, but with the buildings of today. Wheth...
Our relationship could now thrive only in my head, and to discuss it with a mother intent—admittedly in my own best interest—on challenging it with reality might do it irreparable harm.
Many parents were strict, and sometimes weeks would pass without us being able to meet those we thought of as our girlfriends. So we learned to savor the denial of gratification—that most un-American...
I love it when you talk about where you come from, she said, slipping her arm through mine, you become so alive.
There is something magical about London. It can coax a water lily to tie its roots to land.