“Soraya-joon, I have done all that I could. Do not be sorry for us. Your mother and I await you upon your… — Andre Dubus III Dear brother 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… — Andre Dubus III Black girl 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… — 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.… — Andre Dubus III Beach house 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… — Andre Dubus III Husband and father Copy Share Image
Most of the time I feel stupid, insensitive, mediocre, talentless and vulnerable - like I'm about to cry any second - and… — Andre Dubus III About 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… — Andre Dubus III Far apart 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… — 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… — Andre Dubus III Books 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… — Andre Dubus III Difficult time 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… — Andre Dubus III America 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… — Andre Dubus III Laundry Room 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… — Andre Dubus III Last night 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… — Andre Dubus III Dressing room Copy Share Image
“The JD wasn't going down smooth at all. Not like good stuff should. Instead of a warm slow seeping, it seemed to… — Andre Dubus III Sharp edges Copy Share Image
“The ocean to my right was maroon, the sky above it silver. There were sand trails through the thick purple ice plant… — Andre Dubus III Ocean Copy Share Image
“...joy was something she willed herself to show us, something she raised from deep inside herself as a promise for what could… — Andre Dubus III Joy Copy Share Image
“The house was quiet, my room dark and still. I lay awake and thought of all the good men on TV who'd… — Andre Dubus III Dead soldiers Copy Share Image
“He tried to remember her ever being this way before. In her voice--almost overexuberant--was not simply holiday cheer but joyous relief, like… — Andre Dubus III Falling in love Copy Share Image
“And that's what I wanted: obliteration. Decimation. Just an instant smear of me right out of all this rising and falling and… — Andre Dubus III Copy Share Image
“I felt more like me than I ever had, as if the years I’d lived so far had formed layers of skin… — Andre Dubus III Writing Copy Share Image
