Entire years had passed when he was rich enough in time to disregard the loose change of a minute, but now he obsessed over each one, this minute, th….

There was a time when she had indulged in the hypothetical for hours a day, plotting the map that had led her here. But no life is a line, and hers w….

She was fluent in four languages and yet her fists against the rusted hood were the fullest articulation of her defeat..

Work isn't meaningful just because you spend your life doing it..

We tend to associate humor with lightheartedness, but really, it's a rhetorical mode than can be applied to any subject. It was through researching C….

War is unnatural, it causes people to act unnaturally..

There is something miraculous in the way the years wash away your evidence, first you, then your friends and family, then the descendants who remembe….

Happiness came in moments of unpredictable loveliness..

She wouldn't climb out of the bed for her sister, but she had climbed into a crater. She wouldn't cross a room, but she had crossed a continent..

But there had to be a quota. An upper limit to the number of miracles one is privileged to in a lifetime. How many times can a beloved reappear?.

We all know to feel sympathy for those who've suffered from drug addiction, child abuse, and terminal illness, so the set up elicits an emotional res….

She praised his book and he embraced her from gratitude rather than lust, but she didn't let go. Neither did he. She kissed his cheek, his earlobe. F….

Sometimes it bursts from your imagination fully formed, sometimes you absorb from nonfiction, sometimes you're able to imprint your own autobiographi….

It's stupid. There are maps to show you how to get to the place where you want to be but no maps that show you how to get to the time when you want t….

What parts had she discarded for the sake of her sanity? What had she cut from herself? Had he stared into her pupils he would have emerged, bewilder….