“A non-month. Unfocused and unfelt, a lukewarm protoplasm of a month.”
― A Wild Sheep Chase
― A Wild Sheep Chase
“Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.”
― Slaughterhouse-Five
― Slaughterhouse-Five
“As a grown woman, I would have said to my father that there are true things in this world observed only by a single set of eyes.”
― Her Body and Other Parties: Stories
― Her Body and Other Parties: Stories
“In fact, if not for the plaque-WHALE GENITAL: MALE—no one would have taken it to be a whale's penis... It bore no resemblance to my penis, nor to any penis I'd ever seen. What was worse, the severed penis exuded a singular, somehow unspeakable aura of sadness.”
― A Wild Sheep Chase
― A Wild Sheep Chase
“He is not a bad man, and that, I realize suddenly, is the root of my hurt.”
― Her Body and Other Parties: Stories
― Her Body and Other Parties: Stories
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