Cyd

“I want to know everything about you, so I tell you everything about myself.”
― Amy Hempel

“The buying of more books than one can read is nothing less than the soul reaching toward infinity...”
― A. Edward Newton

“They say the smart dog obeys but the smarter dog knows when to disobey.”
― Amy Hempel

“ I think of the chimp, the one with the talking hands.
In the course of the experiment, that chimp had a baby. Imagine how her trainers must have thrilled when the mother, without prompting, began to sign her newborn.
Baby, drink milk.
Baby, play ball.
And when the baby died, the mother stood over the body, her wrinkled hands moving with animal grace, forming again and again the words: Baby, come hug, Baby come hug, fluent now in the language of grief.”
― Amy Hempel, The Collected Stories