“He was my teacher, and he had wrapped himself, his elaborate historical self, into this package, and stood in front of the high windows, to teach me my little lesson, which turned out to be not about Poland or fascism… — Rebecca Lee Copy Share Image
“James was one of those atheists God must love the most, much more than those of us who were believers, since it is their… — Rebecca Lee Copy Share Image
“This is the whole problem with words. There is so little surface area to reveal whom you might be underneath, how expansive and warm,… — Rebecca Lee Copy Share Image
“Every dinner party by the end is a bit of a defeat. After the halfway mark, when everybody is still in high-spirits, some even… — Rebecca Lee Copy Share Image
“What an idea--that with a few words you could catch another person in a little grammatical clutch, arrange the objects of the world such… — Rebecca Lee Copy Share Image
“And I did long for it, to say one true sentence of my own, to leap into the subject, that sturdy vessel travelling upstream… — Rebecca Lee Copy Share Image
“I felt so grateful for the heat that came out of that cab's vents, though it reached me as just slender filaments that could… — Rebecca Lee Copy Share Image
“If one of the things people do is establish a civilization out of nature, a way out of the chaos, then Ray was failing… — Rebecca Lee Copy Share Image
“She put her hand on my shoulder, and her eyes let me know, just crouch down, hold tight, there's a little bit of pain… — Rebecca Lee Copy Share Image
“Perfect days, for me, began with identical food and drink and activity; not until dusk would I develop the restlessness that is supposed to… — Rebecca Lee Copy Share Image
“If you have ever felt that the table at which you sit contains everything and everybody that matters to you, like a little boat,… — Rebecca Lee Copy Share Image
