“I’m feeling great. Well, pretty great, unless I’ve forgotten to take a couple of Tylenols in the past four or five hours, in which case I’ve begun to feel some jagged little pains shooting down my left forearm and into the base of the thumb.” FeelsWellsLittlesFeelingsPainPastLeftHoursCasesFiveFourCoupleForgottenShootingThumbsFeeling GreatTylenol Author:Roger Angell
“Hold a baseball in your hand ... Feel the ball, turn it over in your hand; hold it across the seam or the other way, with the seam just to the side of your middle finger. Speculation stirs. You want to get outdoors and throw this spare and sensual object to somebody or, at the very least, watch somebody else throw it. The game has begun.” WayWantFeelsHandsTurnsGamesSidesWatchesMiddleObjectsBaseballBallsFingersSensualSparesSpeculationMiddle Finger Book:Five Seasons: A Baseball Companion Source: Five Seasons: A Baseball Companion
“I felt what I almost always feel when I am watching a ballgame: Just for those two or three hours, there is really no place I would rather be.” FeelsTwoThreeFeltHoursBaseballBallgame Book:The Summer Game Source: The Summer Game
“What the dead don't know piles up, though we don't notice it at first. They don't know how we're getting along without them, of course, dealing with the hours and days that now accrue so quickly, and, unless they divined this somehow in advance, they don't know that we don't want this inexorable onslaught of breakfasts and phone calls and going to the bank, all this stepping along, because we don't want anything extraneous to get in the way of what we feel about them or the ways we want to hold them in mind.” KnowsWayWantFeelsMindFirstsCoursesHoursKnow HowPhonesBreakfastPhone CallsInexorableGetting Along Author:Roger Angell
“Life is tough and brimming with loss, and the most we can do about it is to glimpse ourselves clear now and then, and find out what we feel about familiar scenes and recurring faces this time around.” FeelsFacesLife IsCan DoLossClearSceneToughFamiliarNow And ThenGlimpseRecurringLife Is Tough Book:Let Me Finish Source: Let Me Finish
