Far apart Quote by Andre Dubus III

“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

“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

“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

“... 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

“...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

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

“Her thighs are oiled and dark, and oblivion never felt as good as it does now,”

— Andre Dubus III

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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