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- There's a graveyard in northern France where all the dead boys from D-Day are buried. The white crosses reach from one horizon to the other.…
- Respecting the dignity of a spectacular food means enjoying it at its best. Europeans celebrate the short season of abundant asparagus as a form of…
- With all due respect for the wondrous ways people have invented to amuse themselves and one another on paved surfaces, I find that this exodus…
- Like kids who only ever get socks for Christmas, but still believe with all their hearts in Santa.
- Gilbert has established herself as a straight-up storyteller who dares us into adventures of worldly discovery, and this novel stands as a winning next act.…
- I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.
- What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you might not exist. You could be…
- People's dreams are made out of what they do all day. The same way a dog that runs after rabbits will dream of rabbits. It's…
- I can count all the ways in which being a mother has enriched my understanding of the world, of character, my sense of the future…
- Sometimes I still have American dreams. I mean literally. I see microwave ovens and exercise machines and grocery store shelves with 30 brands of shampoo,…
- There were two things about Mama. One is she always expected the best out of me. And the other is that then no matter what…
- April is the cruelest month, T.S. Eliot wrote, by which I think he meant (among other things) that springtime makes people crazy. We expect too…
- Your dreams, what you hope for and all that, it's not separate from your life. It grows right up out of it.
- Thanks for this day, for all birds safe in their nests, for whatever this is, for life.
- But we've all ended up giving body and soul to Africa, one way or another. Even Adah, who's becoming an expert in tropical epidemiology and…
- I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence. I can understand a wrathful God…
- On the day I swore to uphold the Hippocratic oath, the small hairs on the back of my neck stood up as I waited for…
- She is inhumanly alone. And then, all at once, she isn't.
- Shoes would interfere with her conversation, for she constantly addresses the ground under her feet. Asking forgiveness. Owning, disowning, recanting, recharting a hateful course of…
- At some point in my life I'd honestly hoped love would rescue me from the cold, drafty castle I lived in. But at another point,…
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