Roy is my favorite security guy. He's a huge African-American gentleman who always has a beautiful smile on his face. He's the King of the Main Desk, and I'm always glad to arrive at work and bask in his magnificent good cheer.
Audrey Niffenegger
Think for a minute, darling: in fairy tales it's always the children who have the fine adventures. The mothers have to stay at home and wait for the children to fly in the window.
childhood mothers
Dream are different than real life but important too.
dreams reality real-life
To world enough and time.
time world dream
He would say her name over and over until it devolved into meaningless sounds - mah REI kuh, mah REI kuh - it became an entry in a dictionary of loneliness.
loneliness
Sleep is my lover now, my forgetting, my opiate, my oblivion.
sleep forgetting lover oblivion
I breathe slowly and deeply. I make my eyes still under eyelids, I make my mind still, and soon, Sleep, seeing a perfect reproduction of himself, comes to be united with his facsimile.
sleep
I sleep all day. Noises flit around the house- garbage truck in the alley, rain, tree rapping against the bedroom window. I sleep. I inhabit sleep firmly, willing it, wielding it, pushing away dreams, refusing, refusing. Sleep is my lover now, my forgetting, my opiate, my oblivion. [..] It is afternoon, it is night, it is morning. Everything is reduced to this bed, this endless slumber that makes the days into one day, makes time stop, stretches and compacts time until it is meaningless.
sleep escapism
CLARE: The library is cool and smells like carpet cleaner, although all I can see is marble.
first-sentence
.. And I suddenly feel that Henry is there, incredible need for Henry to be there and to put his hand on me even while it seems to me that Henry is the rain and I am alone and wanting him- Clare
longing
But now, I know, how absence can be present, like a damaged nerve, like a dark bird.
life absence present
I told Ing once that she dances like a German and she didn't like it, but it's true: she dances seriously, like lives are hanging in the balance, like precision dancing can save the starving children of India.
funny humor dancing
stereotypes
But don't you think, I persist, that it's better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just okay for your whole life?
life
Running is many things to me: survival, calmness, euphoria, solitude. It is proof of my corporeal existence, my ability to control my movement through space if not time, and the obedience, however temporary, of my body to my will.
proof ability survival solitude thetimes time
My family isn't posh; they're musicians.
family
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