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.
Well, we can say that Aimee lives in her bubble, he said, interrupting me, and so does your friend and, by the way, so do you. It's possible that it's like this for everyone. The size of the bubble is...
It's great to just be here with you, watching the world go by.
It was a competition in agony. Like rich women in posh restaurants ordering ever-smaller salads.
It’s only recently that I had any idea that how a person felt about libraries—not schools or hospitals, libraries—could even represent an ideological split. I thought a library was one of the few site...
But to create a real feeling—made
She measured time in pages. Half an hour, to her, meant ten pages read, or fourteen, depending on the size of the type, and when you think of time in this way there isn’t time for anything else.
Ryan was convinced of the ageing fifties motto ‘Live fast, die young’, and, though his scooter didn’t do more than 22 m.p.h. downhill...
Last year, when Zora was a freshman, sophomores had seemed altogether a different kind of human: so very definite in their tastes and opinions, in ther loves and ideas. Zora woke up this morning hopef...
And were they still like that, she wondered--these new girls, this new generation? Did they still feel one thing and do another? Did they still only want to be wanted? Were they still objects of desir...
This iswhat divorce is: taking things you no longer want from people you no longer love
As the departing president well understood, in this world there is only incremental progress. Only the willfully blind can ignore that the history of human existence is simultaneously the history of p...
Together we entered this new space that now opened up between people, a connection with no precise beginning or end, that was always potentially open, and my mother was one of the first people I knew...
There's always somebody who wants to be the Big Man, and take everything for themselves, and tell everybody how to think and what to do. When, actually, it's he who is weak. But if the Big Men see tha...
This is what divorce is: taking things you no longer want from the people you no longer love.
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...
But darling, I am clean. Two years clean. Cept the coke, weed, drink, pills . . . I said I’m clean, not a bloody Mormon!
But why do they always have to be laughing and making a song-and-dance about everything? I cannot believe homosexuality is that much fun. Heterosexuality certainly is not.
Yes, you could make something ornamental. That’s your freedom! Take it! Who knows? You might be the next Augusta Savage! I
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...
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