Jim Porter

“In her rare moods of liberation she held for him the danger that she would disclose great riches within herself, showing him the depths of loss frozen over by their marriage.”
― John Updike, Couples

“They had been drinking. In the society of Tarbox there was no invitation more flattering than to share, like this, another couple’s intimacy, to partake in their humorous déshabille, their open quarrels and implicit griefs.”
― John Updike, Couples

“He lay on his back like a town suspended from a steeple. He”
― John Updike, Couples

“What they do mention, if asked, is their surprise at how easy it is to die. The pattern of ordinary life, in which so much stays the same from one day to the next, disguises the fragility of its fabric.”
― David Wallace-Wells, The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming