My husband, Andrius, says that evil will rule until good men or women choose to act. I believe him. This testimony was written to create an absolute record, to speak in a world where our voices have been extinguished. These writing may shock or horri...
The costumes help. They make it less real, disguise what it really is both for the actors and for the people who'll see it on the screen. It's like the people who read and because it's in Russia they can say, 'Oh, that's not my pain they're talking a...
He looked down at the books. There was a long silence. Then he raised his eyes and directed his gaze at Gershon, and Gershon did not look away. "I will tell you, Loran what is of importance is not that there may be nothing. We have always acknowledge...
My cousin Roger once told me, on the eve of his third wedding, that he felt marriage was addictive. Then he corrected himself. I mean early marriage, he said. The very start of a marriage. It's like a whole new beginning. You're entirely brand-new pe...
No one worries about you like your mother, and when she is gone, the world seems unsafe, things that happen unwieldy. You cannot turn to her anymore, and it changes your life forever. There is no one on earth who knew you from the day you were born; ...
Tyler rolls out of bed, sniffs the armpits of yesterday's T-shirt, tosses it aside, gets another out of the drawer. His dad sometimes asks him why he sets his alarm so early -- it's summer vacation, after all -- and Tyler can't seem to make him under...
Bertahun-tahun lamanya aku sangat ingin menjadi sahabat Amerika, tetapi mereka tak menerimaku. Amerika berulang-ulang salah mengartikan bantuan asing dengan persahabatan. Amerika, aku memerlukan pengertianmu. Aku berteriak-teriak untuk itu. Dan bukan...
Amerika bersikap toleran pada negara Asia yang terbelakang karena dua alasan. Pertama, kami merupakan pasar yang bagus. Kami membayar kembali dengan memberi bunga. Dan yang kedua, mereka takut kami menjadi komunis. Ia mencoba membeli kesetiaan kami. ...
Dengan setiap rambut di tubuhku, aku hanya memikirkan tanah airku. Dan tidak ada perlunya bagiku melepaskan beban dari dalam hatiku kepada setiap pemuda yang datang kemari. Aku telah mengorbankan hidupku untuk tanah ini. Tidak jadi soal kalau ada yan...
Bung Karno, besok aku akan digantung. Aku meninggalkan dunia yang fana ini dengan hati gembira, pergi ke tiang gantungan dengan keyakinan dan kekuatan batin karena aku tahu Bung Karno akan melanjutkan perjuangan ini yang juga merupakan peperangan kam...
Seseorang jangan melibatkan dirinya ke dalam perjuangan hidup-mati, jika dia sebelumnya tidak insyaf akan akibatnya. Pihak musuh akan memgerahkan segala daya, lagi dan lagi, agar dapat mempertahankan cengkramannya. Tapi, sekalipun selama berabad-abad...
Remember that you own what happened to you. If your childhood was less than ideal, you may have been raised thinking that if you told the truth about what really went on in your family, a long bony white finger would emerge from a cloud and point to ...
Hey, a guy can hope. I mean, it’s not impossible that a car full of scantily clad sorority girls might break down outside and need my help.” “That’s true,” I said. “Maybe I can put a sign out front that says, ‘ATTENTION ALL GIRLS: FREE ...
Why did they all have to tread so very delicately around Celeste's money? It was like wealth was an embarrassing medical condition. It was the same with Celeste's beauty. Strangers gave Celeste the same furtive looks they gave to people with missing ...
And if sun comes How shall we greet him? Shall we not dread him, Shall we not fear him After so lengthy a Session with shade? Though we have wept for him, Though we have prayed All through the night-years— What if we wake one shimmering morning to ...
One thing they don’t tell you ’bout the blues when you got ’em, you keep on fallin’ ’cause there ain't no bottom,' sings Emmylou Harris, and she may be right. Perhaps it would help to be told that there is no bottom, save, as they say, wher...
She led him to the top of the stairs, where light came straight from the sky because the second-story windows of that house had been placed in the pitched ceiling and not the walls. There were two rooms and she took him into one of them, hoping he wo...
And in all those escapes he could not help being astonished by the beauty of this land that was not his. He his in its breast, fingered its earth for food, clung to its banks to lap water and tried not to love it. On nights when the sky was personal,...
As I got closer to the fence, I held my shirt over my nose to block the smell. One stallion waded through the muck and whinnied angrily at me. He bared his teeth, which were pointed like a bear's. I tried to talk to him in my mind. I can do that with...
But if you ask me what I remember (about 1945), I will say it was the year Franklin D. Roosevelt died and I got one of his flowers. I will tell you that yellow rose give me the courage to do the right thing even if it was hard. I will say it was the ...
Was he a good kisser, Ms. Lane?” Barrons asked, watching me carefully. I wiped my mouth with the back of my hand at the memory. “It was like being owned.” Some women like that.” Not me.” Perhaps it depends on the man doing the owning.” I ...
