For every situation there is a proper distance. Growing up is just a matter of gaining perspective.
Susan at first seemed more of a presence than a personality.
Even when she was hung over, her posture suggested a perfect alignment between heaven and earth.
Meanwhile, Susan looked carefully into each of our faces. She was actually waiting for us to answer, to give reasons why people fall in love and get married.
Nobody knows, I wanted to say. Nobody really knows. But that doesn’t mean you’re allowed to not do it.
Every dinner party by the end is a bit of a defeat. After the halfway mark, when everybody is still in high-spirits, some even intoxicated, and the dessert still hasn’t arrived, there is a moment when it seems like we are the most interesting dinner party in Manhattan tonight, we love each other, and we should do this all the time, why don’t we do this all the time? Everybody is calculating when they can invite everybody to their house for the next dinner party.
But then there is the subtle shift downward. Somebody is a little too drunk. The bird, which was a bronze talismanic c…
Even when she was hung over, her posture suggested a perfect alignment between heaven and earth.
Meanwhile, Susan looked carefully into each of our faces. She was actually waiting for us to answer, to give reasons why people fall in love and get married.
Nobody knows, I wanted to say. Nobody really knows. But that doesn’t mean you’re allowed to not do it.
Every dinner party by the end is a bit of a defeat. After the halfway mark, when everybody is still in high-spirits, some even intoxicated, and the dessert still hasn’t arrived, there is a moment when it seems like we are the most interesting dinner party in Manhattan tonight, we love each other, and we should do this all the time, why don’t we do this all the time? Everybody is calculating when they can invite everybody to their house for the next dinner party.
But then there is the subtle shift downward. Somebody is a little too drunk. The bird, which was a bronze talismanic c…