To Room Nineteen: Collected Stories Volume One

At once they opened newspapers and lifted them up like screens.

Now they allowed their eyes to exchange a long, formal glare of hate, before turning deliberately away from each other.

whole thing was not important. After all, years ago they had joked: Of course I’m not going to be faithful to you, no one can be faithful to one other person for a whole lifetime.

Except that forgiveness is hardly the word. Understanding, yes. But if you understand something, you don’t forgive it, you are the thing itself: forgiveness is for what you don’t understand. Nor had he confessed – what sort of word is that?

the habit of loving

None has been more anthologized than Through the Tunnel, mostly for children.

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