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“I bit into the chocolate chip. Slowed myself down.By then, almost a week in, I could sort through the assault of layers a little more quickly. The chocolate chips were from a factory, so they had t...”
“It is these empty spaces you have to watch out for, as they flood up with feeling before you even realize what's happened.”
“My father usually agreed with her requests, because stamped in his two-footed stance and jaw was the word Provider, and he loved her the way a bird-watchers heart leaps when he hears the call of th...”
“My eyelids are my own private cave, he murmured. That I can go to anytime I want.”
“I started in our neighborhood, buying a pastrami burrito at Oki Dog and a deluxe gardenburger at Astro Burger and matzoh-ball soup at Greenblatt's and some greasy egg rolls at the Formosa. In part ...”
“My favorite of all was still the place on Vermont, the French cafe, La Lyonnaise, that had given me the best onion soup on that night with George and my father. The two owners hailed from France, f...”
“Listen. Look. Desire is a house. Desire needs closed space. Desire runs out of doors or windows, or slats or pinpricks, it cant fit under the sky, too large. Close the doors. Close the windows. As ...”
“Sherrie would be there, and the last time Id seen her at a social event she burst into tears when she saw me and ran out of the room. Youre upset, Id yelled after her, meanly.”
“In general, I call her every night, and we talk for an hour, which is forty-five minutes of me, and fifteen minutes of her stirring her tea, which she steeps with the kind of Zen patience that woul...”
“Most teenage girls don't give old people the time of day which is sad because all old people do all the time is think about how nice it was to be a teenager so long ago.”
“You can't predict the outcome. You can't raise a child and then tell them what to think.”
“She could feel it brimming on her lips, that superstar smile, the bow shape, the teeth long and solid tombstones.”
“Ponytail girl leaned over and she and the tall boy kissed and it was carcinogen gums and magical.”
“We end up kissing her for an hour, and her lips are so soft they are almost like a joke.”
“It's tempting to think of red for sun," she said, "but it has to be just a dash, not much. More of a dark orange and a hint of brown. And then white on yellow on white. Not bright white,' she said....”
“But rock, of course, is many colors. The distinction is subtle, but it is not just one plain grey, that I can promise...I spent five hours one afternoon just staring at a rock trying to see into it...”
“At lunch you order steamed vegetables because you're remembering that you have a heart too. You feel humbled by your heart, it works so hard. You want to thank it. You give your heart a little pat”
“He said, I always thought the woman Id marry would hit me easy, in a bolt of lightning, and there is not lightning there is not even thunder there is not even rain.”
“That's the thing with handmade items. They still have the person's mark on them, and when you hold them, you feel less alone.”
“I peeled the skin off a grape in slippery little triangles, and I understood then that I would be undressing every item of food I could because my clothes would be staying on.”
