Millat was half sure that he was possibly maybe going to do something or not that would be correct and very silly and fine and un-good.
Kiki began to giggle. Now Howard let go of Zora and held his wife instead, gripping he from behind. His arms could not go entirely around her, but still they walked in this manner down the small hill...
I'm as liberal as the next person', complained Alsana, once they were alone. 'But why do they always have to be laughing and making a song-and-dance about everything? I cannot believe homosexuality is...
I knew my mother was in the process of becoming, or trying to become, an intellectual, because my father often threw this term at her as a form of insult during their arguments.
He's one of those people, thought Howard, who looks like one quality very much, and the quality in this case is 'noble'. Howard didn't much trust people like that, so full of one quality, like books w...
Fewer American flags [in Brooklyn] than in Florida but more than in San Francisco.
Everybody’s got their tribe. Whose tribe are you in anyway?
England is not warmer than New England in July or August, that's true. Probably not in June either. But it is warmer in October, November, December, January, February, March, April and May - that is,...
Either everything is sacred or nothing is. And if he starts burning other people’s things, then he loses something sacred also. Everyone gets what’s coming, sooner or later.
Bizi sevmeyen herhangi birinin yaralı, eksik ve bir şekilde hasta olduğunu nereden çıkarıyoruz? Özellikle de bir Tanrı'yı veya ağlayan Meryem Ana'yı veya İsa'nın yüzünü bize tercih ettikleri zaman onl...
Because this is the other thing about immigrants ('fugees, émigrés, travellers): they cannot escape their history any more than you yourself can lose your shadow.
At least then, we have the satisfaction of a little short-term pleasure instead of a lifetime of feeling inadequate.
Any woman who counts on her face is a fool.
As long as we encourage a culture of victim hood, said Monty, with the rhythmic smoothness of self-quotation, we will continue to raise victims. And so the cycle of underachievement continues.
Progress is never permanent, will always be threatened, must be redoubled, restated and reimagined if it is to survive.
Am so angry at you right now.
Yes, sometimes it’s the strangers that sustain you.
Usually when we compliment a dancer we say: she makes it look easy. This is not the case with Aimee. Part of her secret, I felt as I watched her, is the way she’s able to summon joy out of effort, for...
The window logs Kilburn’s skyline. Ungentrified, ungentrifiable. Boom and bust never come here. Here bust is permanent. Empty State Empire, empty Odeon, graffiti-streaked sidings rising and falling li...
The other cyclists used to take breaks to watch him do it. Lean their bikes against the incline and time him with the second hand of their wristwatches. 62.8 every time. That kind of inability to impr...