Tag: book club
“It was easier to lie when you believed the lie.”
“do you know what it’s like to live/someplace that loves you back?”
“Anna smelled the bay, its oily piers. Clusters of seagulls hopped at the shore like white rabbits.”
“Because a place can do many things against you, and if it’s your home or if it was your home at one time, you still love it.”
“do you know what it’s like to live/someplace that loves you back?”
“All were in sorrow, or had been, or soon would be. It was the nature of things”
“A Cavalier Evaluation”
“Though we have both suffered misfortune, we are lucky to have spent our whole lives together”
“Times have changed. But not times only.”
“I had Sylvia, Angela, and Gigi, the four of us sharing the weight of growing up Girl in Brooklyn, as though it was a bag of stones we passed among ourselves saying, Here. Help me carry this.”
“Jefferson’s advice on how to win friends and influence people did not have much appeal for a pugnacious John Adams.”
