“I think of the emptiness of outer space, and the men in their little pods going up there alone, wives and girlfriends left behind. I think of Abel and me lying on the grass, looking up at the stars, and… — 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
