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- Three times a day Petrovich showed up at the nurse's office for his injections, always using the hypodermic needle himself like the most craven of…
- Basically you come up with the fictional idea and you start writing that story, but then in order to write it and to make it…
- I have a very beautiful room in my house... It's glass on three sides, and you'd think that's the perfect place to write. Somehow in…
- Some Pulitzer winners - novelists - have confided to me that getting the prize screwed them up. It messed with their heads. That hasn't been…
- He knew a lot about his grandparents - and perhaps he feels he's been endowed with abilities to go into people's heads who are long…
- We felt the imprisonment of being a girl, the way it made your mind active and dreamy, and how you ended up knowing which colors…
- It didn't matter in the end how old they had been, or that they were girls, but only that we had loved them, and that…
- Dr. Armonson stitched up her wrist wounds. Withen 5 minutes of the transfusion he declared her out of danger. Chucking her under the chin, he…
- We knew the pain of winter rushing up your skirt, and the ache of keeping your knees together in class, and how drab and infuriating…
- But in the end it wasn't up to me. The bigs things never are. Birth, I mean, and death. And love. And what love bequeaths…
- My family suffered. My hair turned up in every corner, every drawer, every meal. Even in the rice puddings Tessie made, covering each little bowl…
- We're all made up of many parts, other halves. Not just me.
- I was beginning to understand something about normality. Normality wasn't normal. It couldn't be. If normality were normal, everybody could leave it alone. They could…
- She had given birth to me and nursed me and brought me up. She had known me before I knew myself and now she had…
- All sixteen mentioned her jutting ribs, the insubstantiality of her thighs, and one, who went up to the roof with Lux during a warm winter…
- Remember that day you said you loved me? Remember that? See, you could do that because you're basically a sane person, who grew up in…
- The window gave onto a view of dove-gray roofs and balconies, each one containing the same cracked flowerpot and sleeping feline. It was as if…
- That was when Leonard realized something crucial about depression. The smarter you were, the worse it was. The sharper your brain, the more it cut…
- When I think back about my immediate reaction to that redheads girl, it seems to spring from an appreciation of natural beauty. I mean the…
- It was something every child knew how to do, maintain a direct and full connection with the world. Somehow you forgot about it as you…
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