“My head was a magpie's nest lined with such bright scraps of information.”
― Too Much Happiness: Stories
― Too Much Happiness: Stories
“We say of some things that they can't be forgiven, or that we will never forgive ourselves. But we do--we do it all the time.”
― Dear Life
― Dear Life
“In your life there are a few places, or maybe only the one place, where something happened, and then there are all the other places.”
― Too Much Happiness
― Too Much Happiness
“She sits in her usual ample armchair, with piles of books and unopened magazines around her. She sips cautiously from the mug of weak herb tea which is now her substitute for coffee. At one time she thought that she could not live without coffee, but it turned out that it is really the warm large mug she wants in her hands, that is the aid to thought or whatever it is she practices through the procession of hours, or of days.”
― Too Much Happiness: Stories
― Too Much Happiness: Stories
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