I can manifest my neurotical emotions, emancipate an epicureal instinct, and elaborate on my heterosexual tendencies.
Recently she had been going through a period of adolescent melancholia, often talking with her mother, a nurse, about death. She would, she hoped, be some day reincarnated as a cat.
But you are a solace just by existing, vividly in my thoughts if not here before me.
A jury is as bright as the dumbest member of the jury.
On their own, your eyes did not naturally discover the sky.
In marriage, the most intense conversations are often with oneself.
Never can you climb over this wall, you’re not strong enough; girls aren’t strong enough; girls aren’t big enough; your body is fragile and breakable, like a doll; your body is a doll; your body is for others to admire and to pet; your body is to be used by others, not used by you; your body is a luscious fruit for others to bite into and to savor; your body is for others, not for you.
Josiah feel that, for a moment, he’d been cast back to his adolescent self on this very campus: essentially, a claustrophobic little world of privilege and anxiety in which one was made to care too much about too little.
Maybe he’d been mistaken, trying so hard to make his wife and young children happy. Maybe it’s always a mistake, trying to assure the happiness of others.
It is a terrible thing to feel that you might break down, you might utter a confession that could not then be retrieved.
I believe in uttering the truth, even if it hurts. Particularly if it hurts.
It is required that we must be fiercely beloved by one individual in order to exist: for Sabbath, Haley was that individual.
Laughter too depends upon memory – a memory of previous laughter. Dr.
You who are non-believers rely upon us, to confirm your sense of superiority. You need to imagine us as unchanged, unchangeable.
I know that there are many essential biological differences between the sexes, of course. But not so many ‘culturally-mandated’ differences. In First World countries we’ve evolved beyond mere biology -it isn’t the fate of the human female to be pregnant continously until she wears out and dies.
And I like your laugh, Sabbath; it’s inaudible.
Like many shy people, once he began talking he seemed not to know how to stop; he lacked the social sleight of hand to change the subject, and he had no idea how to engage another person. Like a runaway vehicle, he plunged on, heedless.
Were you wounded when your marriage collapsed? When your love collapsed? Or does love never “collapse,” only just fade gradually away?
Unfamiliar places could be more dangerous than familiar places, unexpectedly. The boy had been discovering that an unfamiliar place was more easily “haunted” than a familiar place simply because there was less there to distract the memory.
Like editing, gardening requires infinite patience; it requires an essential selflessness, and optimism.