“it's almost easier being down and alone than when you re up and no one s there to share the view with… — Andre Dubus III Easier Copy Share Image
“If there is no snake at your feet, do not lift rocks at the side of the road.” — Andre Dubus III Rocks Copy Share Image
“Her thighs are oiled and dark, and oblivion never felt as good as it does now,” — Andre Dubus III Heart 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 Like Chirp 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
“...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
“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
“...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 Heart 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
“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 Father 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
“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
“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 Moon 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
“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 Know Difference 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“... 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
“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
“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 Brother Copy Share Image
“He thought of winter coming, how it's the only season that stays like it will never leave;” — Andre Dubus III Flower Copy Share Image
“if there is no feet at your feet, do not lift rocks at the side of the road.” — Andre Dubus III Feet Copy Share Image
“Sometimes in this life, only one or two opportunities are put before us and we must seize them no matter the risk.” — Andre Dubus III Goals Copy Share Image
“When I thought of the word "man," I could only think of those who could defend themselves and those they loved.” — Andre Dubus III Language Copy Share Image
“Then she turned on him in a hundred small ways, each of them minor and not unusual when one human being lived… — Andre Dubus III Copy Share Image
“On my way out with the rest, I glanced back at Bowman. he was on this knees, his hair in his face,… — Andre Dubus III Copy Share Image
“But I'd run two miles and when I stepped inside our cool, dark house, I yelled up the stairs to Mom, "I… — Andre Dubus III Mom Strong Copy Share Image
“But now his body feels like some dumb beast he merely exists inside, and every now and then it lets him know… — Andre Dubus III Mind Copy Share Image
“She tried to stand but he had her by the hair and with his other hand he was jerking back and forth… — Andre Dubus III Copy Share Image
“It's been six months, Nancy.' 'What's your hurry? It took me a year to get used to living with Carl. I mean,… — Andre Dubus III Marriage advice Copy Share Image
“One of the things I tell the writers with whom I work is, man, when you finish a draft of a poem,… — Andre Dubus III Art Copy Share Image
