“Sonata,” he says, “means ‘sounding together.’ It is an argument in which one theme is presented in opposition to another and they… — Eula Biss Sonata Copy Share Image
“I asked him for a bedtime story. I didn’t really want a story, I just wanted him to talk to me. He… — Eula Biss Copy Share Image
“Today I noticed a slim bar of soap lodged deep in the throat of the sink. My fingers can’t reach that far… — Eula Biss Copy Share Image
“Mother: “He used to say that you could lock me in a closet and I’d still get something out of it. I… — Eula Biss Copy Share Image
“I don’t know….” He has been saying this over and over, ending every thought with it. Finally I ask him, “What don’t… — Eula Biss Favorite color Copy Share Image
“He thinks I don’t pay attention. He has been talking and I have been silently naming the scents of everything we are… — Eula Biss Copy Share Image
“We had been arguing for hours and it was dark in the room. We sat silently on the couch, I was tapping… — Eula Biss Dark room Copy Share Image
“The laws of water are very difficult. No matter how many times it is explained to me, I don’t understand how the… — Eula Biss River Copy Share Image
What a dazzlingly generous, gloriously unpredictable book! Maggie Nelson shows us what it means to be real, offering a way of thinking… — Eula Biss Copy Share Image
“I pause when the man at the register lays down a red carnation with my change, says quietly, “This is for you,”… — Eula Biss Copy Share Image
“My mother was in the bathtub crying and I was standing outside the door waiting, just in case she decided to slip… — Eula Biss Copy Share Image
“Words like ‘custody’ don’t mean the same thing to him. I don’t want us to own anything together. “You don’t want to… — Eula Biss Copy Share Image
