Amy Hempel: Thought

Amy Hempel is Short story writer. Explore interesting quotes on thought.

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“We can only die in the future, I thought; right now we are always alive.”

Source: The Collected Stories

“I thought, my love is so good, why isn't it calling the same thing back.”

Source: The Collected Stories

“Maybe this is not a come-down-from-the-ledge story. But I tell it with the thought that the woman on the ledge will ask herself a question, the question that occurred to that man in Bogota. He wondered how we know that what happens to us isn't good?”

The Man in Bogota

“Then the children went to bed, or at least went upstairs, and the men joined the women for a cigarette on the porch, absently picking ticks engorged like grapes off the sleeping dogs. And when the men kissed the women good night, and their weekend whiskers scratched the women's cheeks, the women did not think shave, they thought stay.”

Amy Hempel book The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel

The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel, (2006)