My own heart's secrecy been his, my cat insanities of night.

“Then I remember ice cream been a food I never taste. I wonder what my mama dream to name me for this food, as…

— Sandra Newman

“Is nothing faithful in the world. Air itself betray.”

— Sandra Newman

“That sense of the world being the lack of something dogged him for years, and when it stopped dogging him, he felt unmoored. ”

— Sandra Newman

“He says nothing, vehemently. I falter away and we sit, mutually staring into the fouled water. ... With time to kill, I ponder dismally…

— Sandra Newman

“The dream was strongest of all when Kate's heart was broken. Then she fell asleep as if falling out of life, and the dream…

— Sandra Newman

“How it can be, that Ice Cream ain't existing anywhere. Will be no me to know I ain't there.”

— Sandra Newman

“Then my tears come blinding, and he lead me by the arm. I stumble in the elevator, thinking of that moon rain. Salt that…

— Sandra Newman

Giving a reader a sex scene that is only half right is like giving her half a kitten. It is not half as cute…

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Examining the actual contents of my crying, I found a quailing sludge emotion, with a foul insecticide taste. If it was a peanut, you…

— Sandra Newman

“You have to understand, it's how we are here. It's like we're all asleep. We grow up, we fall asleep, and then the horrors…

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“It was what Julia had been thinking for weeks, but now she said, You mustn't think that. It was they who made you —…

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“It was beautiful to be heartbroken, it was as pleasurable as a thing could be. But pointless.”

— Sandra Newman

“Then we all sat around; we were supposed to be awed. I was brattishly unawed.”

— Sandra Newman

You're getting like an attitude. What you get put through for just wanting something more out of life. Makes you vulnerable. Inside, that tug…

— Sandra Newman

“He wear a roo suit - grey-green dapple thing, ain't satisfy to be one ugly color, it be ugly twice.”

— Sandra Newman