“I wake up afraid that she will be taken and folded up in a closet like clean linen.” — Eula Biss Afraid Copy Share Image
Wealthier countries have the luxury of entertaining fears the rest of the world cannot afford. — Eula Biss Country Copy Share Image
“She was poisoned, but the reason she was crying was that her husband didn’t want her anymore.” — Eula Biss Intelligence Copy Share Image
“This is the year that everyone is trying to fly around the world in a balloon. I don’t know why.” — Eula Biss Around the world Copy Share Image
“He is someone who believes he can break things, or he believes that anything can hurt him.” — Eula Biss Believes Copy Share Image
“as Jean-Paul Sartre put it, “Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.” What” — Eula Biss Freedom Copy Share Image
“In this case, I can only hope that my life, which is my crime, might also serve as my apology.” — Eula Biss Apology Copy Share Image
“Sometimes he gives a little flourish with his fingers that makes me wonder if all his movements are a quiet performance.” — Eula Biss Flourish Fingers Copy Share Image
“I think I remember him saying that the problem with a tire fire is that it can smolder for years, burning quietly… — Eula Biss Fire Copy Share Image
“He hears his mother and his sister-in-law talk about how lonely it is to be married to a musician, how many nights… — Eula Biss Married Copy Share Image
“Mother: “Rumi wrote that…roughly…the only thing that will be with you to your grave is your work. Only your work will speak… — Eula Biss Mother Copy Share Image
A trust-in the sense of a valuable asset placed in the care of someone to whom it does not ultimately belong-captures, more… — Eula Biss Assets Copy Share Image
“I move one seat closer to the couple on the bus. They are holding hands but she is looking out her window… — Eula Biss Holding hands Copy Share Image
“Mother: “I’m amazed that more people don’t commit suicide. They just keep on living. It’s so hard and they just keep doing… — Eula Biss Mother Copy Share Image
“I was shaking when I asked my mother, “Do you think you eat enough?” She was silent for a long time until… — Eula Biss Long time Copy Share Image
“I come home to an empty house and fill the sink with water. The pigeons above the window are clucking. I let… — Eula Biss Dishes Copy Share Image
“Black is closing in around my eyes. I realize with a great, tired sadness that I am losing the world. The walls,… — Eula Biss Falling Copy Share Image
“Mother: “I couldn’t stand his friends from medical school. They were all pompous and awkward. They knew how to memorize but they… — Eula Biss Friendship Copy Share Image
I thought, how would I feel if my son gave one of those [underprivileged] kids chicken pox? For him it's not a… — Eula Biss Access Copy Share Image
“There are some words that seem to well up from inside me without reason. I will be walking along an empty hallway,… — Eula Biss Language 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 Another woman 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 Crying Copy Share Image
“Whiteness is not a kinship or a culture. White people are no more closely related to one another, genetically, that we are… — Eula Biss Black people Copy Share Image
And when comfort is what we want, one of the most powerful tonics alternative medicine offers is the word 'natural.' This word… — Eula Biss Alienation Copy Share Image
“When he says, “Why can’t you follow a recipe?” I am hurt, because I know that he is not just asking why… — Eula Biss Asking Copy Share Image
“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 Wanted Talk 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 Every day 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 Closet 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 Pay attention 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
“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 Custody Copy Share Image
“You know, she used to tear down parts of that house and put them back together herself.” — Eula Biss Home Copy Share Image
Fear is isolating for those that fear. And I have come to believe that fear is a cruelty to those who are… — Eula Biss Believe Copy Share Image
The opportunity to think with another mind is my preferred mode of travel. — Eula Biss Inspirational Copy Share Image
“Mother (over and over again): “What you have to understand about men is that they aren’t like us. They don’t have feelings.”… — Eula Biss Feelings Copy Share Image
Our willingness to believe the news is, in many cases, not entirely innocent. — Eula Biss Believe Copy Share Image
“I’m afraid something will happen to my hands,” he says, “I need my hands.” — Eula Biss Afraid Copy Share Image
“We are not close,” he said, and let the effect linger before he said, “We live five hundred miles apart.” — Eula Biss Miles apart Copy Share Image
![“I thought, how would I feel if my son gave one of those [underprivileged] kids chicken pox? For him it's not a terrible thing. We have good insurance and easy access to health care. It's a different situation for another family. I didn't want to make the decision for them.” quote by Eula Biss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/16f/eula-biss-12946_access_i-thought-how-would-i-feel-if-my-son-gav_754757.jpg)
