“In everyday life males and females alike are relatively silent about love. Our silence shields us from uncertainty. We want to know love. We are simply afraid the desire to know too much about love will lead us closer and closer…
Welcome to the Future! The girls, called eves, are designed in a laboratory. “Genetic Engineers were forced to create women to ensure the survival of the human race. And since they had the opportunity, it would have been foolish not to…
“Memories are powerful things. But–and this is important, my therapist said–so are the dark spaces. The things you choose, consciously or not, to repress. Always, they’re the things you need protection from. The too much: too terrifying, too shameful, too devastating.…
What will happen if one day everybody in the world who is at least twenty-two years old will receive a box? The box, the same size and the same material for everybody, will have not only the name of the receiver…
You would think that when you retire in your 70s, after forty years of marriage, four kids, and a good business, you will have a good life. Joy and Stan (the main characters of Liane Moriarty’s latest novel “Apples never fall”)…
When I think of Viola Davis, in my mind comes her image as Annalise Keating (the character she play in “How to get away with murder”), taking off her wig and showing herself vulnerable. For me it was a powerful image…
“The Greeks sail, and take my hope with them. I cannot follow. I am tied to this earth where my ashes lie. I curl myself around the stone obelisk of his tomb. ACHILLES, it says, and nothing more. He has gone…
“- My name is Elizabeth Zott, and this is SUPPER AT SIX.” Hands on her hips, her lips outlined in Brick Red, her thick hair pulled back in a simple French twist secured with a number-two pencil, Elizabeth leveled her gaze…
“Erika knew surprisingly little about the Orthodox Church, most of her understanding coming from a single conversation she’d had in the eighties with a Romanian informer who had come to Vienna to discuss the terms of his employment. The professor had…
Even if they were twin sisters and lived together, Rose and Fern had different memories of their childhood. “When we were five, my mother took my sister, Rose, and me to the library every day for a year. <<A better education…
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