8 quotes found
“Life is sad. Here is someone.”
“I would never understand photography, the sneaky, murderous taxidermy of it. ”
“They had, finally, the only thing anyone really wants in life: someone to hold your hand when you die.”
“You have a choice," she told the class. "The whorish emptiness of lies or the straightlaced horrors of truth.”
“In the Dictionary 'lumpy jaw' comes just before 'lunacy,' but in life there are no such clues. Suddenly, for no reason, you might start to dribble from the mouth, to howl peevishly at the moon. You...”
“This is why a woman makes things up: Because when she dies, those lives she never got to are all going down with her. All those possibilities will just site there like a bunch of school kids with t...”
“My new apartment might be a place where there are lots of children. They might gather on my porch to play, and when I step out for groceries, they will ask me, "Hi, do you have any kids?" and then,...”
“I watched my friend Eleanor give birth," she said. "Once you've seen a child born, you realize a baby's not much more than a reconstituted ham and cheese sandwich. Just a little anagram of you and ...”
