For instance, until her death, her mother had sent her new underwear in the mail every other month.
Remember, Maya: the things we respond to at twenty are not necessarily the same things we will respond to at forty and vice versa... but me-also-thinks my latter-day reaction speaks to the necessity of encountering stories at precisely th right time.
We do things without knowing entirely why, just because our heart tells us that we must” -Theo.
Above all, Ms. Loman, I find slim literary memoirs about little old men whose little old wives have died from cancer to be absolutely intolerable. No matter how well written the sales rep claims they are. No matter how many copies you promise I’ll sell on Mother’s Day.
An e-reader allows these cursed creatures to enlarge the text as much as they’d like.
Bah! Books are for nerds.
Hey, pretty girl. How you doing?” “Adopted,” she says.
Maya, If you’re stuck, reading helps: “The Beauties” by Anton Chekhov, “The Doll’s House” by Katherine Mansfield, “A Perfect Day for Bananafish” by J. D. Salinger, “Brownies” or “Drinking Coffee Elsewhere” both by ZZ Packer, “In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson Is Buried” by Amy Hempel, “Fat” by Raymond Carver, “Indian Camp” by Ernest Hemingway. We should have them all downstairs. Just ask if you can’t find anything, though you know where everything is better than I. Love, Dad.
Of course, a wandering mind is not always advisable for the recently deceased and is nearly never advisable for the beginning driver.
Humans are not born forever on the day their mothers have them; life necessitates giving birth to themselves over and over again.
You’ve got a decent smile, I’ll give you that, but your teeth are too big and so is your ass and you’re not twenty-five anymore even if you drink like you are. You shouldn’t look a gift horse in the mouth.
The difficulty of living alone is that any mess he makes he is forced to clean up himself.
Puedes tomar prestadas las palabras que no encuentras.
Island used to offer free gift wrap at Christmas, and he figures that diaper changing and gift-wrapping must be related proficiencies.
Leemos para saber que no estamos solos. Leemos porque estamos solos. Leemos y no estamos solos. No estamos solos.
No somos exactamente novelas. No somos exactamente relatos cortos. Al final somos obras completas.
Fun is having a smart, pretty, easy wife with whom you get to spend every working day.
No one else seems as real as he does.
There were so many kinds of love. And some of them were forever like the kind I had for Natty and for Leo. And other kinds? Well, you’d be a fool if you tried to guess how long they’d last. But even the ones that weren’t necessarily everlasting were not without meaning” -Anya.
I’m bad. I married a bad man, too. And I know that bad people deserve what they get, but oh, how we hate to be alone.