Since his mother died I have seen him steam a cucumber thinking it was zucchini. That's the kind of thing that turns my heart right over.
Amy HempelI meet a person, and in my mind I'm saying three minutes; I give you three minutes to show me the spark.
Amy HempelI assemble stories-me and a hundred million other people-at the sentence level. Not by coming up with a sweeping story line.
Amy HempelThe worst of it is over now, and I can't say that I am glad. Lose that sense of lossโyou have gone and lost something else. But the body moves toward health. The mind, too, in steps. One step at a time. Ask a mother who has just lost a child, How many children do you have? "Four," she will say, "โthree," and years later, "Three," she will say, "โfour.
Amy Hempel