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“A dinner made by a great cook is a vision of the world to come.”
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“Souraya thought those days that she knew so many songs about the misery of love because pain kept love within the boundaries of time, and knowable, whereas what she was experiencing passed beyond the horizon of birth and death; it was like the eternal life the prophets spoke of. A gesture, a kiss, a task, a sentence had a golden elemental endlessness, like the scenes in the murals painted in the island houses.”
― The Book of Heaven
― The Book of Heaven
“Once when he was still young, I saw a bit of his scalp showing through his hair and I was afraid. But it was just a cowlick. Now sometimes it shows through for real, but I feel only tenderness.”
― Dept. of Speculation
― Dept. of Speculation
“Is she a good baby? People would ask me. Well, no, I'd say.
That swirl of hair on the back of her head. We must have taken a thousand pictures of it.”
― Dept. of Speculation
That swirl of hair on the back of her head. We must have taken a thousand pictures of it.”
― Dept. of Speculation
“Whenever the wife wants to do drugs, she thinks about Sartre. One bad trip and then a giant lobster followed him around for the rest of his days.”
― Dept. of Speculation
― Dept. of Speculation
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