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Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read

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I never deliberately learned to read, but somehow I had been wallowing illicitly in the daily papers. In the long hours of church--was it then I learn...more

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He was letting you break your icons one by one. he was letting you reduce him to the status of a human being.

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Something is wrong with me, it's something about me. it has to be me because all those people cannot have changed.

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I willed myself to stay awake, but the rain was so soft and the room was so warm and his voice was so deep and his knee was so snug that I slept.

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Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.