“...joy was something she willed herself to show us, something she raised from deep inside herself as a promise for what could be. Now her life seemed to have opened up into it as if it had been waiting for… — Andre Dubus III Copy Share Image
“Soraya-joon, I have done all that I could. Do not be sorry for us. Your mother and I await you upon your return. We… — Andre Dubus III Copy Share Image
“But beneath them all, at the very bottom of the stack, is a worn and slightly tattered magazine called African Mamas Sucking Hog. I… — Andre Dubus III Copy Share Image
“She was speaking again, her voice like the chirp of a bird who has flown into a black tunnel but does not yet know… — Andre Dubus III Copy Share Image
“... beach houses along short sandy streets. He can feel her bare forarm brushing his, and it's strange she's being so quiet. He glances… — Andre Dubus III Copy Share Image
“...it seemed almost inconceivable that in his short marriage to Althea she had, in her quiet way, left him feeling not only worthy, but… — Andre Dubus III Copy Share Image
Most of the time I feel stupid, insensitive, mediocre, talentless and vulnerable - like I'm about to cry any second - and wrong. I've… — Andre Dubus III Copy Share Image
“Coming?" Dennis held his arm out for her, a patient smile in his voice. She peered up at him, but he was just a… — Andre Dubus III Copy Share Image
“Her thighs are oiled and dark, and oblivion never felt as good as it does now,” — Andre Dubus III Copy Share Image
“It’s easy K. on one side of the page you got your costs and on the other side your benefits. All you do is… — Andre Dubus III Copy Share Image
“If you don’t put 99 percent of yourself into the writing, there will be no publishing career. There’s the writer and there’s the author.… — Andre Dubus III Copy Share Image
“this I know of life’s difficult times: there is always a time for them to begin and a time for them to end, and… — Andre Dubus III Copy Share Image
“Dat's what they say of this cauntry back home, Kath: 'America, the land of milk and honey.' Bot they never tell you the milk's… — Andre Dubus III Copy Share Image
“Letting go of the pipe in the laundry room, he could feel in his throat so many sentences from the night's reading of emails,… — Andre Dubus III Copy Share Image
“If my father had been working at the 7-Eleven in Wyoming last night, what would he have done? Would he have gone for Elroy's… — Andre Dubus III Copy Share Image
“But even in September, Thursday was a big money night, seven to eight hundred take-home, and that's what April concentrated on as she drove,… — Andre Dubus III Copy Share Image
