For weeks or months they moved through their separate lives and slept side by side as though they were two strangers who had mista...kenly been assigned the same hotel room. And then something would happen and he would find himself staring at her as though he could see the soul of her, looking for an end to his troubles inside the loop of her arms, and he would be snagged with the fishhook of herself, with the barbed hook of his powerless infatuation with something that she seemed to have, some answer that she seemed to offer.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
...you are like whitewashed tombs, which on the outside look beautiful, but inside they are full of the bones of the dead and of a...ll kinds of filth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Class, race, sexuality, gender--and all other categories by which we categorize and dismiss each other--need to be excavated from ...the inside.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have reached no conclusions, have erected no boundaries, shutting out and shutting in, separating inside... from outside: I have drawn no lines:LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I think that carrying a baby inside of you is like running as fast as you can. It feels like finally letting go and filling yourse...lf up to the widest limits.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When the storm rattles my windowpane I'll stay hunched at my desk, it will roar in vain... For I'll have plunged deep inside the thrill Of conjuring spring with the force of my will, Coaxing the sun from my heart, and building here Out of my fiery thoughts, a tepid atmosphere.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »