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The first rule of the house is that everything must be even stevens.

Trump reminded me of the guys I grew up with on Long Island.

God was surrounding the chair, leaves flourishing from a sickly tree.

The air has grown inside me. It’s become a sanctuary.

I never felt heart stop or skin burn, just the first split second of sound.

A car curved left, leapt the curb, and came at us like the line of a bullet.

Lillian-Yvonne Bertram

I repeated the name thoughtfully, then said no, I didn’t think I knew her.

A boy knew he wouldn’t see his mother’s face as he rose from the mat.

We put effort into making things that No Man would ever think of creating.

Morie Johnson was successful. I am not a hooker. I am only a thief.

“No, no,” we say. “We’re fine! Really! We love things just the way they are!”

Theodora Shure

Cerberuses ran in packs, terrorizing drunks who fell in the snow.

Once, when young and proud, I tried to grasp the enormity of the past.

Severe knobs of head and tail: one a horn of venom, the other masked.

It wants to name the dead—without a name you wander lost in the sky.

We’d never had a cross word, but I’d never corrected him.

What about writers who come suddenly into full power late in life?

What about writers who come suddenly into full power late in life?

Re: murdering democracy, oiling the shore, shearing the rain forest.

there is no place on this earth I can run from my own prejudice

I had forgotten how to breathe, and then I learned again, all at once.

The war was about to begin, and the four boys were
in charge.

I open the door and Eleanor is leaning against the wall, paper white.

I was opposed to the taking of human life. I was opposed to all war.

Make It Big, all return and rhythm, a groove that plays to the center.

Appearance does not really appear, but it appears to appear.

You have your apron on under your coat. We’ve got each other.

He begrudged how money poured through her hands like water.