Her metaphors for her children included barnacles encrusting a ship and limpets clinging to a rock.

“I used to think of my body as an instrument, of pleasure, or a means of transpo…”

“Men can imagine their own deaths, they can see them coming, and the mere though…”

“In front of us, to the right, is the store where we order dresses. Some people …”

“He’s a young man, my own age or a little older, which is young for a man althou…”