each of us filling with a sense of mystical wonder and loneliness that merged into one mystical wonder and loneliness together
Fernanda Monsalvo Basalduahas quotedlast year
Why is Daddy so afraid to die? and my mother said quietly, Who knows, that’s just the way your father is. You know, he’s always been a hypochondriac. Was a terror of death, I wondered, a form of hypochondria?
Giselle González Camachohas quoted2 years ago
Francisco, I didn’t get married to eat lunch by myself. I didn’t get married to spend time by myself.
Giselle González Camachohas quoted2 years ago
How am I ever going to get another damned book written with this woman who makes me walk her to the subway every morning and cajoles me into coming up to Columbia to have lunch with her?
Giselle González Camachohas quoted2 years ago
The thought was like a silent bomb: Aura will never find out about being old, she’ll never get to look back on her own long life. That was all it took, thinking about the unfairness of that and about the lovely and accomplished old lady Aura had surely been destined to become.
Giselle González Camachohas quoted2 years ago
Destined. Was I destined to have come into Aura’s life when I did, or did I intrude where I didn’t belong and disrupt its predestined path?
Giselle González Camachohas quotedlast year
Is this really happening, mi amor? Am I really back in Brooklyn again without you?
Giselle González Camachohas quotedlast year
But few people who’d known me or Aura before we got together would have guessed either of us had any talent for domestic life.
Giselle González Camachohas quotedlast year
Hola, mi amor. But where did you go? Why were you away so long? I know you didn’t get married just to go off by yourself like that and leave me alone here!
Giselle González Camachohas quotedlast year
I rarely opposed Aura’s wishes, with the exception, I admit, of her wanting to move to a bigger apartment, or one with a garden where we could have a dog, because we really couldn’t afford to do that just yet.