“I move one seat closer to the couple on the bus. They are holding hands but she is looking out her window… — Eula Biss Holding hands Copy Share Image
“Words like ‘custody’ don’t mean the same thing to him. I don’t want us to own anything together. “You don’t want to… — Eula Biss Copy Share Image
“He hears his mother and his sister-in-law talk about how lonely it is to be married to a musician, how many nights… — Eula Biss Music Copy Share Image
“I asked him for a bedtime story. I didn’t really want a story, I just wanted him to talk to me. He… — Eula Biss Copy Share Image
“Mother: “I’m amazed that more people don’t commit suicide. They just keep on living. It’s so hard and they just keep doing… — Eula Biss Mother Copy Share Image
“My mother was in the bathtub crying and I was standing outside the door waiting, just in case she decided to slip… — Eula Biss Mother Copy Share Image
“She was poisoned, but the reason she was crying was that her husband didn’t want her anymore.” — Eula Biss Intelligence Copy Share Image
“Mother: “Rumi wrote that…roughly…the only thing that will be with you to your grave is your work. Only your work will speak… — Eula Biss Parenting Copy Share Image
“The laws of water are very difficult. No matter how many times it is explained to me, I don’t understand how the… — Eula Biss Copy Share Image
Fear is isolating for those that fear. And I have come to believe that fear is a cruelty to those who are… — Eula Biss Believe Copy Share Image
“In the past few decades quite a few people have suggested -- citing most often the offence of impossible proportions -- that… — Eula Biss Barbie Copy Share Image
Our willingness to believe the news is, in many cases, not entirely innocent. — Eula Biss Believe Copy Share Image
“I felt sick with hatred then for my own people. If you had asked me why I hated them, I might have… — Eula Biss Racism Copy Share Image
That so many of us find it entirely plausible that a vast network of researchers and health officials and doctors worldwide would… — Eula Biss Art Copy Share Image
“We are not close,” he said, and let the effect linger before he said, “We live five hundred miles apart.” — Eula Biss Miles apart Copy Share Image
“I don’t know….” He has been saying this over and over, ending every thought with it. Finally I ask him, “What don’t… — Eula Biss Favorite color Copy Share Image
“You know, she used to tear down parts of that house and put them back together herself.” — Eula Biss Home Copy Share Image
“Whenever a tool is handled with ease and with a minimum of false motions, so that it will produce accurate and satisfactory… — Eula Biss Right way Copy Share Image
“I’m afraid something will happen to my hands,” he says, “I need my hands.” — Eula Biss Fear Copy Share Image
The opportunity to think with another mind is my preferred mode of travel. — Eula Biss Inspirational Copy Share Image
“I bent over, sick, and leaned my head against the softness of his stomach. He wrapped his arms around me, rocking gently.… — Eula Biss Love Copy Share Image
“But for now I prefer to think that I will go somewhere that is not so overimagined.” — Eula Biss Copy Share Image
“We drove past our old house,” the woman told me, “and I noticed that the tree he had watered through the droughts… — Eula Biss Old house Copy Share Image
“Mother (over and over again): “What you have to understand about men is that they aren’t like us. They don’t have feelings.”… — Eula Biss Mother Copy Share Image
