Brian

“The only time the word baby doesn't scare me is the time that it should, when it is what a man calls me.”
― Amy Hempel, The Collected Stories

“The women advised long walks. They told the wife to watch the sun rise and set, to look for solace in the natural world, though they admitted there was no comfort to be found in the world and they would all be fools to expect it.”
― Amy Hempel, The Collected Stories

“And it was the first time that I believed the claim that you can help a person more by asking them the right question than by giving them the answer.”
― Amy Hempel, The Collected Stories

“We can only die in the future, I thought; right now we are always alive.”
― Amy Hempel, The Collected Stories