Relationships, it seems to me, are timeless. What works between two people always works; what doesn't is always troublesome. Over time, people learn - or not - how to negotiate what's difficult, but that doesn't mean the misfit has gone… — Rafael Yglesias Copy Share Image
“Perhaps they assumed that he would have a hard time putting her first. Perhaps they had not understood that for a long time she had come first with him, that for many years she had been his heart's home and… — Rafael Yglesias Copy Share Image
Arthur Conan Doyle was entranced by the notion of a brilliant detective who can deduce everything a stranger has been up to from the… — Rafael Yglesias Copy Share Image
To me, people's lives and loves are entwined with their characters, natures and circumstances. I regard all general advice with skepticism. — Rafael Yglesias Copy Share Image
“A hand landed on his ass and urged him on and there was no wall, there were no obstacles, there was only the sea… — Rafael Yglesias Copy Share Image
Whether you want to entertain or to provoke, to break hearts or reassure them, what you bring to your writing must consist of your… — Rafael Yglesias Copy Share Image
“Re: Central Park But the height proved the awesome truth that the park was made by man: nature re-created where it had been killed.” — Rafael Yglesias Copy Share Image
Sadly, for those who are busy sawing off their feet to escape the trap of cliches, every story is chock full of them and… — Rafael Yglesias Copy Share Image
“... and that did it. That brought those depthless blue eyes within a foot, perhaps six inches, maybe even closer, and something happened inside… — Rafael Yglesias Copy Share Image
Relationships, it seems to me, are timeless. What works between two people always works; what doesn't is always troublesome. Over time, people learn -… — Rafael Yglesias Copy Share Image
New York is a much more bourgeois city, more of a tourist attraction than a muscular metropolis. It's lost moxie and a rough energy,… — Rafael Yglesias Copy Share Image
It's hard to conceive of someone who could work for at least a few hours each day for months and years on the same… — Rafael Yglesias Copy Share Image
I didn't want readers to think I was asking to be praised for taking care of my wife while she was ill. Lots of… — Rafael Yglesias Copy Share Image
“And into its bland merciless face what did he have to show as his proof that he deserved to live? - Nothing but that… — Rafael Yglesias Copy Share Image
