“as Jean-Paul Sartre put it, “Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.” What” — Eula Biss Freedom Copy Share Image
“In this case, I can only hope that my life, which is my crime, might also serve as my apology.” — Eula Biss Apology 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
“He is someone who believes he can break things, or he believes that anything can hurt him.” — Eula Biss Copy Share Image
Our willingness to believe the news is, in many cases, not entirely innocent. — Eula Biss Copy Share Image
“I’m afraid something will happen to my hands,” he says, “I need my hands.” — Eula Biss 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 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
“He thinks I don’t pay attention. He has been talking and I have been silently naming the scents of everything we are… — Eula Biss 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
“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 River Copy Share Image
“We had been arguing for hours and it was dark in the room. We sat silently on the couch, I was tapping… — Eula Biss Dark room 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
“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
“Mother: “He used to say that you could lock me in a closet and I’d still get something out of it. I… — Eula Biss Copy Share Image
“Today I noticed a slim bar of soap lodged deep in the throat of the sink. My fingers can’t reach that far… — Eula Biss 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 Copy Share Image
“There are some words that seem to well up from inside me without reason. I will be walking along an empty hallway,… — Eula Biss Language Copy Share Image
“I pause when the man at the register lays down a red carnation with my change, says quietly, “This is for you,”… — Eula Biss Copy Share Image
What a dazzlingly generous, gloriously unpredictable book! Maggie Nelson shows us what it means to be real, offering a way of thinking… — Eula Biss 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 Copy Share Image
“Mother: “I couldn’t stand his friends from medical school. They were all pompous and awkward. They knew how to memorize but they… — Eula Biss Friendship Copy Share Image
I thought, how would I feel if my son gave one of those [underprivileged] kids chicken pox? For him it's not a… — Eula Biss Access Copy Share Image
“Black is closing in around my eyes. I realize with a great, tired sadness that I am losing the world. The walls,… — Eula Biss 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 Hatred Copy Share Image
And when comfort is what we want, one of the most powerful tonics alternative medicine offers is the word 'natural.' This word… — Eula Biss Alienation Copy Share Image
One of the paradoxes of our time is that the War on Terror has served mainly to reinforce a collective belief that… — Eula Biss Copy Share Image
“Whiteness is not a kinship or a culture. White people are no more closely related to one another, genetically, that we are… — Eula Biss Black people 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
“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
Wealthier countries have the luxury of entertaining fears the rest of the world cannot afford. — Eula Biss Country Copy Share Image
“I wake up afraid that she will be taken and folded up in a closet like clean linen.” — 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 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
The opportunity to think with another mind is my preferred mode of travel. — Eula Biss Inspirational Copy Share Image
“This is the year that everyone is trying to fly around the world in a balloon. I don’t know why.” — Eula Biss Around the world Copy Share Image
“I was shaking when I asked my mother, “Do you think you eat enough?” She was silent for a long time until… — Eula Biss 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 Feelings 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
![“I thought, how would I feel if my son gave one of those [underprivileged] kids chicken pox? For him it's not a terrible thing. We have good insurance and easy access to health care. It's a different situation for another family. I didn't want to make the decision for them.” quote by Eula Biss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/16f/eula-biss-12946_access_i-thought-how-would-i-feel-if-my-son-gav_754757.png)
