When two people are meant to be together, they will be together. It's fate.
But it all zipped by. One minute Marlena and I were up to our eyeballs, and the next thing we knew the kids were borrowing the car and fleeing the coop for college. And now, here I am. In my nineties...
I open the orangutan's door and set a pan of fruits, vegetables, and nuts on the floor. As I close it, her long arm reaches through the bars. She points at an orange in another pan. 'That? You want th...
It's like Charlie told the cop. For this old man, this is home.
Bathing is even more embarrassing, because I have to strip down to my birthday suit in front of a nurse. Now, there are some things that never die, so even though I'm in my nineties my sap sometimes r...
His mother was exacting revenge because he’d dared to marry me, and his father—well, we weren’t exactly sure. Either
You do right by me, I'll show you a life most suckers can't even dream of.
بعض الأشياء فينا لا تموت ابدا.
I want her to melt into me, like butter on toast. I want to absorb her and walk around for the rest of my days with her encased in my skin.I want.
Why the hell shouldn't I run away with the circus?
Sometimes I think if I had to choose between an ear of corn or making love to a woman, I'd choose the corn.
I reach for the napkin, and as I do I catch sight of my hands. They are knobby and crooked, thin-skinned, and—like my ruined face—covered with liver spots.My face. I push the porridge aside and open m...
I used to think I preferred getting old to the alternative, but now I'm not sure. Sometimes the momotony of bingo and sing-alongs and ancient dusty people parked in teh hallway in wheelchairs makes me...
I just can't. I'm married. I made my bed and now I have to lie in it.
In your thirties something strange starts to happen. It’s a mere hiccup at first, an instant of hesitation. How old are you? Oh, I’m — you start confidently, but then you stop. You were going to say t...
A gaggle of old ladies is glued to the window at the end of the hall like children or jailbirds. They're spidery and frail, their hair as fine as mist. Most of them are a good decade younger than me,...
If you expect people to try to do things your way, you're going to have to give some hints as to what that way is.
Even as your body betrays you, your mind denies it.
Give orange give me eat orange me eat orange give me eat orange give me you. —NIM CHIMPSKY, 1970s Gimme gimme more, gimme more, gimme gimme more. —BRITNEY SPEARS, 2007
He only had the imperfect medium of words.
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