There was a sense in which she couldn’t quite believe in violence, as if it were, in her view, too stupid to be real. I knew—from Lambert only—that her own childhood had been full of violence, emotion...
Then again, the more time I spend with the tail end of Generation Facebook (in the shape of my students) the more convinced I become that some of the software currently shaping their generation is unw...
She dressed for a future not yet with us but which she expected to arrive.
Racial homogeneity is no guarantor of peace, any more than racial heterogeneity is fated to fail.
On cold days a man can see his breath, on a hot day he can’t. On both occasions, the man breathes.
Not everyone wants this conventional little life you’re rowing your boat toward. I like my river of fire. And when it’s time for me to go I fully intend to roll off my one-person dinghy into the flame...
Not even the Catholics would forgive them for it (and Catholics give out forgiveness at about the same rate politicians give out promises and whores give out)
No matter what Jody did, she said nothing. She had learned how to talk some and leave some. She was a rut in the road. Plenty of life beneath the surface but it was kept beaten down by the wheels. Som...
Mum, you just said it yourself: you can't save everybody.
It’s such a confidence trick, writing a novel. The main person you have to trick into confidence is yourself. This is hard to do alone.
It was the spirit of the times: we applied high theory to shampoo ads, philosophy to NWA videos.
It was a garden of abundance and decay: the tomatoes were too ripe, the marijuana too strong, woodlice were hiding under everything.
It is a long walk to table twelve. Not in distance, it is only twenty metres in distance, but it is a long walk through the thick smells and the loud voices and the demands; through the cries of Engli...
Involved is neither good nor bad. It is just a consequence of living, a consequence of occupation and immigration, of empires and expansion, of living in each other's pockets... one becomes involved a...
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.
Fewer American flags [in Brooklyn] than in Florida but more than in San Francisco.
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...
A mortifying sense of porousness.
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...
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