She would simply wait on the bridge, calm and obstinate, until events, real events, not her own fantasies, roe to her challenge, and dispelled her in….

Rebecca Goldstein is a rare find among contemporary novelists: she has intellectual muscle as well as a tender emotional reach..

Looking after children is one of the ways of looking after yourself..

one could drown in irrelevance..

The moment you lose curiosity in the world, you might as well be dead..

I find it very difficult to talk about unwritten works. It's never useful to start putting words casually around the flimsiest of notions. I finished….

come back, come back to me.

Watching him during the first several minutes of his delivery, Cecilia felt a pleasant sinking sensation in her stomach as she contemplated how delic….

I apologize for being obvious, but every time I watch the curtain come down on even a halfway decent production of a Shakespeare play I feel a little….

Who you get, and how it works out - there's so much luck involved, as well as the million branching consequences of your conscious choice of a mate, ….

Novels help us to resist the temptation to think of the past as deficient..

A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended..

I want to live in a place where strangers rush to help someone in distress..

A story was a form of telepathy. By means of inking symbols onto a page, she was able to send thoughts and feelings from her mind to her reader's. It….

This is how the entire course of a life can be changed - by doing nothing..

True intelligence requires fabulous imagination..

When anything can happen, everything matters..

Dearest Cecilia, You’d be forgiven for thinking me mad, the way I acted this afternoon. The truth is I feel rather light headed and foolish in your p….

You enter a state of controlled passivity, you relax your grip and accept that even if your declared intention is to justify the ways of God to man, ….

It is photography itself that creates the illusion of innocence. Its ironies of frozen narrative lend to its subjects an apparent unawareness that th….

I often don't read reviews..