For me to see is to read. It has always been that way.

As for you, you are alive. But it's not the same as living.

What better place to kill time than a library?

opening the book, i inhaled. the smell of old books, so sharp, so dry you can taste it.

My mother and I were like two continents moving slowly but inexorably apart; my father, the bridge builder, constantly extending the fragile edifice he had constructed to connect us.

The doctor's wife wasn't a bad woman. She was sufficiently convinced of her own importance to believe that God actually did watch everything she did and listen to everything she said, and she was too taken up with rooting out the pride she was prone to feeling in her own holiness to notice any other failings she might have had. She was a do-gooder, which means that all the ill she did, she did without realizing it.

When one is nothing, one invents. It fills a void.