We met each other when we were young, before we knew enough about disappointment, and once we did we found we reminded each other of it.
The memories were too perfect: take one detail away and they collapsed into disorder.
The first language humans had was gestures. There was nothing primitive about this language that flowed from people’s hands, nothing we say now that could not be said in the endless array of movements...
Perhaps that is what it means to be a father-to teach your child to live without you.
Now we'd known each other for two years, the side of my calf was touching his shins, and his stomach was against my ribs. He said, I don't think it's end of world to be my girlfriend. I opened my mout...
Maybe Grodzenski was showing me, with his quiet pride, the reason he hummed a little while he worked.
Jsou chvíle, kdy na vás přijde jakási jasnozřivost a vy najednou prohlédnete skrz zdi do jiného rozměru, na který jste zapomněli nebo se rozhodli ho nevnímat, abyste mohli dál žít s nejrůznějšími iluz...
If I had a camera, I said, I'd take a picture of you every day. That way I'd remember how you looked every single day of your life. I look exactly the same. No, you don't. You're changing all the time...
I wanted to describe the world, because to live in an undescribed world was too lonely.
I considered my options. Either I could run away and never go back to school again, maybe even leave the country as a stowaway on a ship bound for Australia. Or I could risk everything and confess to...
How was it possible to wake up every day and be recognizable to another when so often one was barely recognizable to oneself?
All my life I have arrived early only to find myself standing self-consciously on a corner, outside a door, in an empty room, but the closer I get to death the earlier I arrive, the longer I am conten...
Our eyes locked in one of those looks that sometimes happen between strangers, when both wordlessly agree that reality contains sinkholes whose depths neither can ever hope to fathom.
There was stored substrata along
You have to stick up for yourself,he told me.
Y entonces le dio un beso. Aquel beso era una pregunta que él deseó estar contestando durante el resto de su vida.
There are moments when a kind of clarity comes over you, and suddenly you can see through walls to another dimension that you'd forgotten or chosen to ignore in order to continue living with the vario...
The clarity was startling and Samson wondered whether he was imagining these moments. Not that they hadn't happened at all, but that they had been embellished by details from elsewhere, fragments that...
She was gone, and all that was left was the space where you'd grown around her, like a tree that grows around a fence.
She struggled with her sadness, but tried to conceal it, to divide it into smaller and smaller parts and scatter these in places she thought no one would find them.