Do you know what happened the last time a nation listened to a bush? Honey asks. No one says a word. Its people wandered in the desert for forty years.
But that was the beauty of this particular game. The moment you lost, you won.
But if these unavoidable separations cause you a measure of pain, they also increase your longing for her, and perhaps that isn’t a bad thing, you decide, for you spend your days in the thrall of brea...
Books force you to give something back to them, to exercise your intelligence and imagination.
And while all people were bound together by the common space they shared, their journeys through time were all different, which meant that each person lived in a slightly different world from everyone...
And when she thinks of that generation of silent men, the boys who lived through the Depression and grew up to become soldiers or not-soldiers in the war, she doesn’t blame them for refusing to talk,...
She's too sad to be beautiful. No one that sad can still be beautiful.
وشيئاً فشيئاً.. تسرب العالم بأكمله منها
لا شيء أكثر رهبة من مواجهة أغراض رجل ميت.
بعد وفاة والدتك وتحت تأثير الويسكي وساعات طويلة من السهر. بين الصحو والنوم تدرك بأنك لم تشعر بمثل هذا السوء من قبل، جسدك لم يعد الجسم الذي تملكه، هذا الشعور الغرائبي، بأنك ضُربت بمائة مطرقة خشبية. وسح...
Yes, she is in love with him, and yes, in spite of his qualms and inner hesitations, he loves her back, however improbable that might seem to him. Note here for the record that he is not someone with...
Winter solstice: the darkest time of the year. No sooner has he woken up in the morning than he feels the day beginning to slip away from him. There is no light to sink his teeth into, no sense of tim...
When you've lived as long as I have, you tend to think you've heardeverything, that there's nothing left that can shock you anymore.You grow a little complacent about your so-called knowledge of the w...
When every card in the deck is stacked against you, the only way to win a hand is to break the rules.You beg, borrow, and steal, as the old adage goes, and if you happen to get caught in the act, at l...
When a man walks into a room and you shake hands with him, you do not feel that you are shaking hands with him. Death changes that. This is the body of X, not this is X. The syntax is entirely differe...
Try to roll with the punches. Keep your chin up. Don’t take any wooden nickels. Vote Democrat in every election. Ride your bike in the park. Dream about my perfect, golden body. Take your vitamins. Dr...
They had come to the end of what they could talk about. Beyond that point there was nothing: the random thoughts of men who knew nothing.
The pen will never be able to move fast enough to write down every word discovered in the space of memory. Some things have been lost forever, other things will perhaps be remembered again, and still...
The best thing about being fifteen is that you don’t have to be fifteen for more than a year.
The Adlers were diminishing. They had begun to look like one of those families in which no one got to be very old.