She was the kind of person who never gave you enough time to miss her.
Maybe nothing that happens upon stolen ground can expect a happy ending.
He did not consider if or how or why he loved them. They were just love: they were the first evidence he ever had of love, and they would be the last confirmation of love when everything else fell awa...
Cos if it's encyclopedias we've got enough, like, information... and if it's God, you've got the wrong house.
Protect the time and space in which you write. Keep everybody away from it, even the people who are most important to you.
Keisha Blake, whose celebrated will and focus did not leave her much room for angst, watched her friend ascend to the top deck in her new panda-eyed makeup and had a mauvais quart d'heure, wondering w...
في بنات الجيل الجديد، هل ما زلن يردن أن يكن مرغوبات بهذه الشدة؟هل ما زلن يجوعن أنفسهن، وما زلن يقرأن المجلات النسائية التي تكره النساء بمنتهي الوضوح، وما زلن يقطعن أنفسهن بسكاكين صغيرة في أماكن بعيدة...
You are never stronger, thought Samad as approached the doctor, than when you land on the other side of despair.
Those are my bougainvillea—I got Victoria to plant them today, but I don;t know if they will survive. But Right now they have the appearance of survival, which is almost the same thing.
She did what girls generally do when they don't feel the part: she dressed it instead.
In this lengthy riposte, the philosopher informs Paulinus that learning how to live takes a whole life, and the sense most of us have that our lives are cruelly brief is a specious one: It is not that...
In a flood the water goes everywhere, you don't have to think about it. In a drought, if you want water, you have to direct it carefully along each inch of its path.
Generally, women can't do this, but men retain the ancient ability to leave a family and a past. They just unhook themselves, like removing a fake beard, and skulk discreetly back into society, change...
Faith involves an acceptance of absurdity.
A man is a man is a man. His family threatened, his beliefs attacked, his way of life destroyed, his whole world coming to an end - he will kill. Make no mistake. He won't let the new order roll over...
It seems to me that we often commit ourselves wholly to something while knowing almost nothing concrete about it. Another word for that, I suppose, is 'faith.'
I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of young writers, people in all media, want to be famous but they don't really want to do...
Early on, for better or worse, I chose whose child I wanted to be: the child of the novel. Almost everything else was subjugated to this ruling passion, reading stories. As a consequence, I can barely...
Under every friendship there is a difficult sentence that must be said, in order that the friendship can be survived.
They were married before they were friends, which is another way of saying:Their marriage was the occasion of their friendship.They were married before they noticed many small differences in backgroun...