All Souls (3)

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    It isn't only that anything still might happen, some unimaginable piece of news, a sudden turn-around in events, the most extraordinary experiences, discoveries, the world turned upside down... The...
  • 第136页
    The worst thing about the approach of death isn't death itself and what it may or may not bring, it's the fact that one can no longer fantasize about things still to come.
  • 第13页
    When true knowledge proves irrelevant, one is free to invent.

两全其美 (1)

  • 第51页 可爱的丽塔
    这里没什么事情和他有关：街上没有他和阿西一起消磨时间的地方，也没有他小学时骑自行车的小路，也没什么能让他回忆起去世的父母，甚至连这里的老人都比他父母的年纪大。他知道自己和这里没有任何联系，他觉得应...

Fleishman Is in Trouble (10) 更多

  • 第288页 Part Two: God, What an Idiot He Was
    A wife isn’t like an ultra-girlfriend or a permanent girlfriend. She’s an entirely new thing. She’s something you made together, with you as an ingredient. She couldn’t be the wife without you....
  • 第235页 Part Two: God, What an Idiot He Was
    The men hadn’t had any external troubles. They didn’t have a fear that they didn’t belong. They hadn’t had any obstacles. They were born knowing they belonged, and they were reassured at every ...
  • 第93页 Part One: Fleishman Is in Trouble
    He thought about how hard growing up was. There was no way to avoid youth. His father used to say these were the best years of life. He’d think, Are you fucking kidding me? Then kill me now. Yes, ...
  • 第63页 Part One: Fleishman Is in Trouble
    The stories he heard from divorced women were all the same—not the details, but the themes: This thing I thought was just a whim was actually an important part of my spouse’s identity, and still ...
  • 第54页 Part One: Fleishman Is in Trouble
    That was maybe the worst insult of adulthood, that even your silly, non-life-threatening, nonbase desires got swallowed up by routine and maturity and edged out of your life for good.
  • 第47页 Part One: Fleishman Is in Trouble
    But the liver was unique in the way that it healed. It was full of forgiveness. It understood that you needed a few chances before you got your life right. And it wouldn’t just forgive you; it wou...
  • 第40页 Part One: Fleishman Is in Trouble
    By the time we make this decision, to hook ourselves to a person for the rest of our lives, we’re what? Twenty-five? Thirty? We’re babies. We don’t even know what we’re dealing with. How could ...
  • 第38页 Part One: Fleishman Is in Trouble
    My empathy only created more empathy, which sounds good, yes, but was born of inherent cowardice. I was too scared to finish with anger... But I was afraid to stay angry, to leave it all hanging ou...
  • 第29页 Part One: Fleishman Is in Trouble
    Most of all, we didn’t know how severe the damage had been to him for being someone who had desires and wanted to be desired back and hadn’t been.
  • 第26页 Part One: Fleishman Is in Trouble
    People under forty had optimism. They had optimism for the future; they didn’t accept that their future was going to resemble their present with alarming specificity. They had velocity.

Constellations (11) 更多

  • 第196页 The Adventure Narrative
    The female adventurer was regarded with suspicion, as though her attempts at self-actuclization encroached on the pursuits of her male counterparts. A desire to travel may have provoked incomprehen...
  • 第193页 The Adventure Narrative
    Leaving on a whim to go travelling was traditionally the preserve of one gender, and those of means: money, and being male, helped. The demands of home anchored women there and it was men who got t...
  • 第167页 Where Does It Hurt?
    Illness of any kind requires a private designation. It has become acceptable that many conditions are played out in waiting rooms, wards and surgeries. Rendered public, making the experience of ill...
  • 第114页 Panopticon: Hospital Visions
    Illness, despite its classification and language, is as unique to each other as their fingerprints. It is not generic; it resists homogeneity. It is not solely about biology, but intersects with ge...
  • 第108页 Panopticon: Hospital Visions
    The pain doesn't stop, getting incrementally worse. Explaining the actual sensation is like attempting to describe an individual experience of having children, falling in love, or grief.
  • 第96页 On the Atomic Nature of Trimesters
    The decision to have a child should be so joyful, so fun, but to us, it is so daunting. I am filled with fear, not wanting to be disappointed in myself, to feel my body fail again.
  • 第24页 Hair
    If loose, untrammelled hair implies that women are morally questionable, hair pinned up and tied back means the opposite: respectable, prim and obedient. Hair as signifier and symbol represents eve...
  • 第23页 Hair
    Hair has been used to define women racially, sexually, religiously. It makes them into temptresses: represents a troika of femininity, fertility, fuckability.
  • 第17页 Blue Hills and Chalk Bones
    I have come to think of all the metal in my body as artificial stars, glistening beneath the skin, a constellation of old and new metal. After years of medical procedures my scars are in double fig...
  • 第8页 Blue Hills and Chalk Bones
    Our bodies are sacred, certainly, but they are often not ours alone. Our hospital body, all rivers of scars; the day-to-day form that we present to the world; the sacrosanct one we show to lovers ...
  • 第7页 Blue Hills and Chalk Bones
    The doctor-patient relationship had its own imbalances. I have never forgotten the sense of powerlessness in the face of instruction: lie down, bend forward, walk for me. I heve felt it when counti...

Trilobites and Other Stories (1)

  • 第173页 Afterword
    I began to feel that not only did he learn things fast, absorb them fast, but he aged them fast. His sense of things fed not only on his own life but on others' lives too. He had an authentic sense...
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