How, then, does the written word work? What part of a reader absorbs it – or should that be a double question: what part of a reader absorbs what part of a text? I think...

It was hard for me to find my voice because I was, for so long, absorbed in my own world.

Buy what you love. Love those who can’t be bought. Take in all the day has to offer. Give it all away.

…he was doing a breath hydrogen test. If you know the amount of hydrogen someone is exhaling orally, it’s a simple matter to extrapolate the amount they’re exhaling rectally. This is because a fixed percentage...

She pressed her mouth to his throat, his shoulder, would have absorbed him into her skin if she’d known a way.