“Had this been planned? My brain was foggy, incapable of answers. I counted till five. The two people I felt closest to in Moscow lay naked underneath that sheet. This was an invitation, but was it from both of them?”
— Vica Miller, Inga’s Zigzags
“I wished that we could make love right there: his eyes and hands on me, his lips whispering into my ear, him pulling me down to the floor and loving me so hard that there’d be no room left for loneliness, not in my body, not in my heart.”
— Vica Miller, Inga’s Zigzags
“I was on my way to a country where small talk didn’t exist, and I couldn’t wait to get there.”
— Vica Miller, Inga’s Zigzags
“To write a short story, you have to be able to stay up all night.”
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Lorrie Moore (via theparisreview)
Yes, yes! Have done it many times.
“I like her, I thought to myself. I watched Emma in the corner blow marijuana smoke out of the eight-floor window, her body silhouetted against the white curtain. What about Alexandra? Yes, very much so…”
Vica Miller, Inga’s Zigzags
“Art doesn’t have to do anything. It just has to be there for the fierce pleasure we take in doing it.” —Raymond Carver
I love Carver.
“There’s an old writer’s adage: keep your hero in trouble.”
— David McCullough (via theparisreview)
“It’s not the end of the world. Anything can be fixed with the right connections and the right amount of money.”
— Vica Miller, Inga’s Zigzags