Quotes by : Lydia Davis

I copied the address into my address book, erasing an earlier one that had not been good for very long.....

...as long as I felt I had to take some action, I was anguished, and when I gave up all responsibility....

Why don't you like the foods I like?" he asks sometimes. "Why don't you like the foods I make?" I answer.....

As long as everything stayed the same, it seemed possible for him to come back. As long as everything....

Sometimes the grief was nearby, waiting, just barely held back, and I could ignore it for a while. But....

I looked at whale jawbones in the museum this morning. Then I did some shopping. Whenever I go into the....

That fall, after the summer when they both died, she and my father, there was a point when I wanted to....

What was happening to them was that every bad time produced a bad feeling that in turn produced several....

If you think of something, do it.Plenty of people often think, “I’d like to do this, or that.

She is bending over her child. She can’t leave her. Thechild is laid out in state on a table. She wants....