The force with which he wanted it both ways made him grit his teeth. What kind of fool wanted it only one way?
His heart felt dangerously full, for the first time in years. That dried-up battered organ, suddenly flush with love. It could kill him. - Maile Meloy
His heart felt dangerously full, for the first time in years. That dried-up battered organ, suddenly flush with love. It could kill him.
- Maile Meloy
To be a kid is to be invisible and to listen, and to interpret things that aren't necessarily meant for you to hear--because how else do you find out… - Maile Meloy
To be a kid is to be invisible and to listen, and to interpret things that aren't necessarily meant for you to hear--because how else do you find out…
The role of the human brain was to rationalize suffering. - Maile Meloy
The role of the human brain was to rationalize suffering.
When they started to drain a swamp where birds and fish had lived, for a new housing development down the road from his apartment, Steven watched the… - Maile Meloy
When they started to drain a swamp where birds and fish had lived, for a new housing development down the road from his apartment, Steven watched the…
I settled in with The Uninvited Guests thinking I knew what kind of Edwardian pleasures were in store: the fraught dinner party in an endangered, ram… - Maile Meloy
I settled in with The Uninvited Guests thinking I knew what kind of Edwardian pleasures were in store: the fraught dinner party in an endangered, ram…
At the simplicity of the gesture, he felt a pang: the raw nerve of his loneliness exposed. - Maile Meloy
At the simplicity of the gesture, he felt a pang: the raw nerve of his loneliness exposed.
Diabetes is passed that way -- over and down, like a knight in chess. - Maile Meloy
Diabetes is passed that way -- over and down, like a knight in chess.
The force with which he wanted it both ways made him grit his teeth. What kind of fool wanted it only one way? - Maile Meloy
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