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...
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...
It was a competition in agony. Like rich women in posh restaurants ordering ever-smaller salads.
It's great to just be here with you, watching the world go by.
She wore her sexuality with an older woman's ease, and not like an awkward purse, never knowing how to hold it, where to hang it, or when to just put it down.
Not long ago I sat down to dinner with an American woman who told me how disappointed she had been to finally read Middlemarch and find that it was Just this long, whiny, trawling search for a man! Th...
She was someone who lived in her own dreamscape, who presumed that everyone around her was at all times feeling exactly as she was.
Without the balancing setting of everyday life all you have is the news, and news by its nature is generally bad.
Maybe luxury is the easiest matrix to pass through. Maybe nothing is easier to get used to than money.
It's a good friend who wakes a friend from her dream
The greatest lie ever told about love is that it sets you free.
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...
That kind of inability to improve is really very rare. That kind of consistency is miraculous, in a way.
A referendum magnifies the worst aspects of an already imperfect system—democracy—channeling a dazzlingly wide variety of issues through a very narrow gate. It has
We did not desire or dread the boys in themselves, we only desired and dreaded being wanted or not being wanted.
Race. Land. Ownership. Faith. Theft. Blood. And more blood. And more. And
She accepts everything that has happened to her as her destiny, no more surprised or alienated to be who she is than I imagine Cleopatra was to be Cleopatra. I
People were not people but merely an effect of language. You could conjure them up and kill them in a sentence
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.
Great care was taken at all times to protect me from reality. They'd met people like me before. They knew how little reality we can take.
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