She says, “Do you have any rubbers?” I say, I thought she was barren. “Sure, I’m sterile,” she says, “but I’ve had unprotected sex with a million guys. I could have some terrible fatal disease.”...

A night of crying has silenced me. This morning it seems the whole world is against me. I’ve never before felt so barren, so empty. I’ve never before thought the daylight to be … my...

The seeming legitimacy that existed in mind a second earlier vaporized before they could be carried out, leaving the air barren.

This book is written in a barren period of loss with an attempt to move forward towards substance.

I should have asked why any room in the house was better than home to me when she entered it, and barren as a desert when she went out again—why I always noticed and remembered...

It was cold and barren. It was no longer the view that I remembered. The sunshine of her presence was far from me. The charm of her voice no longer murmured in my ear.