Kuoletko sinä?” kysyin, ja äiti nauroi kuin olisin kertonut vitsin, ja se nauru merkitsi minulle enemmän kuin miljoona eitä.

You see, that’s who you are, Joe. All these things. That’s the person I know, and through him is the way you’ll know me, because connected to all these things are moments, and for so...

You said I could be anything I wanted when I was older’, I said.She smiled and said, ‘And you can be. But it’s not very easy to become Jewish.”I know,’ I said forlornly, ‘I need...

I pulled the blanket around my shoulders. The sky was dark and vast and empty and not even a plane disturbed that sullen stillness, not even a star. The emptiness above was now mine within....

Se acredito num velhote que vive nas nuvens, com uma barba branca e que nos julga com um código moral numerado de um a dez? Deus do céu, não, Elly, não acredito! Já teria sido...

… shunning all offers of help, all offers of the more practical… This was his task, he said, and it would be carried out alone. Penance, my brother reminded me, was a lonely place to...

Nothing stays forgotten for long, Elly. Sometimes we simply have to remind the world that we’re still here.

Las tardes de verano se alargaron y sentí deseos de salir con ella al patio, para que el sol le diera en la cara, y ver aparecer, una vez más, sus pecas bronceadas. Quería llevarla...

Shut up, Arthur,’ said my mother, and he zipped his mouth shut like an infuriating child.Ginger started to laugh. Not at anything in particular, but just because Ginger was stoned.

El mundo es un lugar diferente cuando estás bien, cuando eres joven. El mundo es hermoso y seguro.

Their banter was rich and comfortable, their teasing intimate and profound; their ‘I love you’ without the use of those startling words.

Si no tenemos una razón para vivir, ,qué sentido tiene la vida? La existencia necesita un propósito, y éste consiste en ser capaces de soportar el sufrimiento de la vida con dignidad. El propósito nos...

I walked out and breathed fresh air. I felt the sun on my skin. The world is a different place when you are well, when you are young. The world is beautiful and safe. I...

maybe the need to be remembered is stronger than the need to remember.

… I wrote about … my childhood, when dreams were small and attainable for all. When sweets were a penny and god was a rabbit.

Pero sobre todo escribí acerca de él, que ahora se llamaba Max, acerca de mi hermano, nuestro amigo, que llevaba diez días desaparecido. Y escribí acerca de lo que había perdido aquella mañana: el testigo...

—,Que si creo en un anciano de barba blanca que vive en las nubes y juzga a los mortales con un código moral de diez mandamientos? ¡Cielo santo, querida Elly, claro que no! Me habría...

I’d been feeling like this for a while, the continual looking back, the stuckness of it all. I blamed it on the coming New Year, only four and a half months away, when the clocks...

I wondered if all women did with other women was lie and hug.