“Is that how he sees it? He knows how much his death will hurt us, so he must be under the impression that by staying alive he'll eventually hurt us even more. Maybe we should pretend we've stopped caring what… — Barbara Gowdy Copy Share Image
“I think of the emptiness of outer space, and the men in their little pods going up there alone, wives and girlfriends left behind.… — Barbara Gowdy Copy Share Image
“Is that how he sees it? He knows how much his death will hurt us, so he must be under the impression that by… — Barbara Gowdy Copy Share Image
“She and Mud were calves then. They were so devoted to each other that they walked with Date Bed grasping Mud’s tail, and they… — Barbara Gowdy Copy Share Image
“On the one hand, Sylvie loves the feeling of being like everybody else... on the other hand when she feels most like a freak… — Barbara Gowdy Copy Share Image
“And then came months of memories connected to nothing and telling me nothing, and in this ambiguous atmosphere I stopped thinking of him as… — Barbara Gowdy Copy Share Image
“Life is oblivion erupting, for a brief moment, into nonoblivion in order so that oblivion may proclaim... "I am." The assumption being, that living… — Barbara Gowdy Copy Share Image
