She's always thought that one of the beauties of New York is that you can be from anywhere and within moments of landing its yours.
Where happiness was not a possibility, the illusion of it was always more important.
TÊa Obreht is the most thrilling literary discovery in years
We stumble on, thinks Jaslyn, bring a little noise into the silence, find in others the ongoing of ourselves. It is almost enough.
The world does not turn without moments of grace. Who cares how small.
He told me once that there was no better faith than a wounded faith and sometimes I wonder if that is what he was doing all along --trying to wound his faith in order to test it--and I was just another stone in the way of his God.