The mountain trembled like an earthquake. Dust flew into the sky. And the rock turned dark red, like the color of blood'. 'How would you know?' Asks Sindhi cap. 'You only have a black and white televi...
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...
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...
I was, in my own eyes, a veritable James Bond — only younger, darker, and possibly better paid.
I just gritted my teeth, took out a needle, and worked him out of my heart like a splinter.
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.
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
What else is belief but direction?
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...
She sees how you diminish her solitude, and, more meaningfully, she sees you seeing, which sparks in her that oddest of desires an I can have for a you, the desire that you be less lonely.
She attracted people to her; she had presence, an uncommon . Documenting her effect on her habitat, a naturalist would likely have compared her to a lioness: strong, sleek, and invariably surrounded b...
Saeed went with his father to pray on the first Friday after the curfew's commencement, and Saeed prayed for peace and Saeed's father prayed for Saeed and the preacher in his sermon urged all the cong...
Readers don’t work for writers. They work for themselves.
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...
Language lacks the power to describe Faith.
It's easy to be an idealist when you drive a Pajero.