Rarely does one see a squirrel tremble.
People talk about the happy quiet that can exist between two loves, but this, too, was great; sitting between his sister and his brother, saying nothing, eating. Before the world existed, before it wa...
In Archie’s experience anything with a long memory holds a grievance and a pet with a grievance (that time you got the wrong food, that time you bathed me) just isn’t what you want.
I wanted to love and to be loved.
I couldn’t afford to be offended.
He traced the genealogy of the feeling.
The end is simply the beginning of an even longer story.
Well-run libraries are filled with people because what a good library offers cannot be easily found elsewhere: an indoor public space in which you do not have to buy anything in order to stay.
And it's time people told the truth about beautiful women. They do not shimmer down staircases. They do not descend, as was once supposed, from on high, attached to nothing other than wings.
You can feel bad... I mean, that's not illegal.
This iswhat divorce is: taking things you no longer want from people you no longer love
The story was the price you paid for the rhythm.
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...
Our mothers served as our balance, as our foot-rests.
Most of the cruelty in the world is just misplaced energy.
Maybe luxury is the easiest matrix to pass through. Maybe nothing is easier to get used to than money.
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...
Her subject was pride, in all its forms.
He'd turned to me, red-faced, and asked: 'If we were flying to Europe and you wanted to know what France was like, would it help if I described Germany?