Sublime
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Each morning he clambers out of his closet and carries his traitorous heart down to the kitchen like an egg.
Ben Marcus • New American Stories (Vintage Contemporaries)
A period during which I believed that I could keep people fully present, keep them with me, by preserving their mementos, their “things,” their totems.
Joan Didion • Blue Nights
boxes in the States: Tastee
Paul Theroux • Riding the Iron Rooster: By Train Through China
My first daughter was born in the hospital where my nephew died.
Paul Crenshaw • This One Will Hurt You (21st Century Essays)
food that had expired in 1968, twenty-five years earlier.
J. Courtney Sullivan • The Cliffs: Reese's Book Club: A novel
One of those freak accidents the rich suffer—too many people kept them in too good of shape for them to die from natural causes.
Emma Cline • The Guest: ‘The tension never wavers’ (GUARDIAN)
a hamburger the size of a Susan B. Anthony dollar. All day long I installed doorknobs. It was all right.
David Sedaris • Theft by Finding: Diaries (1977-2002)
The trick is never to let down your guard. Never think you are safe. Never take for granted that your children’s hearts beat, that they sup milk, that they draw breath, that they walk and speak and smile and argue and play. Never for a moment forget they may be gone, snatched from you, in the blink of an eye, borne away from you like thistledown.