“The dream was strongest of all when Kate's heart was broken. Then she fell asleep as if falling out of life, and the dream became numinous as real things are numinous, vivid even as it blankly slept. She couldn't prove… — Sandra Newman Copy Share Image
“It was beautiful to be heartbroken, it was as pleasurable as a thing could be. But pointless.” — Sandra Newman Copy Share Image
“Then I remember ice cream been a food I never taste. I wonder what my mama dream to name me for this food, as… — Sandra Newman Copy Share Image
“That sense of the world being the lack of something dogged him for years, and when it stopped dogging him, he felt unmoored. ” — Sandra Newman Copy Share Image
“He says nothing, vehemently. I falter away and we sit, mutually staring into the fouled water. ... With time to kill, I ponder dismally… — Sandra Newman Copy Share Image
“The dream was strongest of all when Kate's heart was broken. Then she fell asleep as if falling out of life, and the dream… — Sandra Newman Copy Share Image
“How it can be, that Ice Cream ain't existing anywhere. Will be no me to know I ain't there.” — Sandra Newman Copy Share Image
“Then my tears come blinding, and he lead me by the arm. I stumble in the elevator, thinking of that moon rain. Salt that… — Sandra Newman Copy Share Image
Giving a reader a sex scene that is only half right is like giving her half a kitten. It is not half as cute… — Sandra Newman Copy Share Image
Examining the actual contents of my crying, I found a quailing sludge emotion, with a foul insecticide taste. If it was a peanut, you… — Sandra Newman Copy Share Image
“You have to understand, it's how we are here. It's like we're all asleep. We grow up, we fall asleep, and then the horrors… — Sandra Newman Copy Share Image
“It was what Julia had been thinking for weeks, but now she said, You mustn't think that. It was they who made you —… — Sandra Newman Copy Share Image
