Maybe luxury is the easiest matrix to pass through. Maybe nothing is easier to get used to than money.
My evidence – such as it is – is almost always intimate. I feel this – do you? I’m struck by this thought – are you?
If she was more curt with her own family than a homeless man this only suggested that generosity was not an infinite quantity and had to be employed strategically where it was most needed.
Yes, sometimes it’s the strangers that sustain you.
There were good and bad kinds of weakness in men, and she had come to the conclusion that the key was to know which kind you were dealing with.
Sometimes in this life you have to take risks on other people.
Four months in the life of a seventeen-year-old is the stuff of swings and roundabouts;... Never again in your life do you possess the capacity for such total personality overhaul.
He saw that the highest compliment a white Englishman can give himself is the assertion that he is “color-blind,” by which he means he has been able to overlook the fact of your color – to look past it – to the “you” beneath. Not content with colonizing your country, he now colonizes your self.
But Archie did not pluck Clara Bowden from a vacuum. And it’s about 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. Clara was from somewhere. She had roots.
On cold days a man can see his breath, on a hot day he can’t. On both occasions, the man breathes.
I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
You want to believe there are limits to what money can make happen, lines it can’t cross.
Michel is a good man, full of hope. Sometimes hope is exhausting.
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 him without a struggle.
The mantra of the makeover junkie, sucking it in, letting it out; unwilling to settle for genetic fate; waiting instead for her transformation...
I couldn’t imagine her leaving this world without ripping its fabric.
The fundamental skill of all mothers – the management of time – was beyond her. She measured time in pages.
And drunk men take dares like they take breaths.
Don’t mask self-doubt with contempt.
When everyone’s building a fence, isn’t it a true fool who lives out in the open?