'Blue Nights' is a story of loss: simple, wrenching, inconsolable loss. — Cathleen Schine Blue Copy Share Image
Women are in positions of power the most radical of activists could only dream of in 1960. — Cathleen Schine Activists Copy Share Image
“No, it's like you get an idea in your head ... no, it's more like you get and idea in your heart.” — Cathleen Schine Copy Share Image
Elinor Lipman tweets like a nightingale with an eagle eye. — Cathleen Schine Eagle eye Copy Share Image
One really understands testicles after reading 'The Family Jewels,' and one is gratified. — Cathleen Schine Family Copy Share Image
“The garden stretched out in a soft drift, colors jumbled any way, an unmade bed of red and yellow and pink. Then… — Cathleen Schine Flower Copy Share Image
If you spend all your time reading books that you only pretend to understand, year after year, there isn't much room for… — Cathleen Schine Copy Share Image
I do not go out to dinner or to the movies with the neighbors, as I do with my friends. I don't… — Cathleen Schine Copy Share Image
“Dress you? I'd rather undress you. We don't belong together. But you belong to me. I want you not as you might… — Cathleen Schine Copy Share Image
For women, World War II had offered an opportunity, and often the necessity, to get out of the house to work. — Cathleen Schine Copy Share Image
I've been fortunate in that I never actually read any Jane Austen until I was thirty, thus sparing myself several decades of… — Cathleen Schine Copy Share Image
“If having an imagination means imagining all the things you don't have - imagining, in fact, the impossibility of your own happiness… — Cathleen Schine Copy Share Image
Anyone who has read a Trollope novel knows that women did not have to wait until 1960 to feel trapped. — Cathleen Schine Copy Share Image
I love my bed. It is larger than a desk and better designed to hold books and papers. It is softer than… — Cathleen Schine Copy Share Image
Alice Munro is not only revered, she is cherished, her stories handled lovingly, turned over and over, gazed at and studied and… — Cathleen Schine Copy Share Image
Michael Chabon has long moved easily between the playful, heartfelt realism of novels like 'The Mysteries of Pittsburgh' and 'Wonder Boys' and… — Cathleen Schine Adventure Copy Share Image
In 'Pictures from an Institution,' Randall Jarrell was able to transcend the academic novel by simply ignoring it, writing a comedy with… — Cathleen Schine Copy Share Image
Nathaniel Rich wrote 'Odds Against Tomorrow' well before Hurricane Sandy and its surge crashed onto the isle of Manhattan, well before the… — Cathleen Schine Copy Share Image
The honeysuckle was everywhere the day the letter arrived, like heat. Wild roses bloomed in hedges of tendrils and perfume. There were… — Cathleen Schine Bees Copy Share Image
“It was not that the woman boasted. Quite the opposite. She was modest to a fault, the fault being she insinuated her… — Cathleen Schine Communication Copy Share Image
... there had been the two little boys. Now they were gone, too. They loved her and called her and sent her… — Cathleen Schine Boys Copy Share Image
Alphabet Juice is the book Roy Blount was born to write, which considering his prodigious talent, is saying a lot. Did you… — Cathleen Schine Alphabet Copy Share Image
“Dear Goat, How does one fall in love? Do you trip? Do you stumble, lose your balance and drop to the sidewalk,… — Cathleen Schine Fall in love Copy Share Image
“Betty ran to the door in time to see a handsome young man dashing through the rain toward the house beside her… — Cathleen Schine Time Copy Share Image
“Biffi said it was more American on an air force base in Crete than it was in Times Square.” — Cathleen Schine Air force Copy Share Image
“Lines of gulls standing on glassy blue patches of wet sand.” — Cathleen Schine Gulls Copy Share Image
“But Fin would always be a bit of a romantic, at least when it came to books.” — Cathleen Schine Books Copy Share Image
Love letters lack taste. No restraint: falling off cliffs, going up in flames. — Cathleen Schine Copy Share Image
Stewardesses were a joke to many of us coming of age in the liberated Sixties. They were no joke in the women's… — Cathleen Schine Age Copy Share Image
