Her daddy, as she called him, and of whom she thought at some point every day, every single day, and whom she had loved with all her heart.
Chairs are public, and one only needs to seek permission to sit in another’s chair if the owner of the room is present; once you were by yourself, any chair was fair game. Except the chairs of really...
Away. Or
And took us to the end of long, dark tunnels, which were filled with green rock and dust. My job was to load rock after it had been blasted, and I did this for seven hours a day. I grew
A word, as often happens, can be like a musical worm in the mind and invite repetition. But
Znajdujemy w życiu to, czego szukamy, powiedział kiedyś do niej ojciec. I miał rację: jeśli szukasz w życiu szczęścia, znajdziesz szczęście, jeśli szukasz nieufności, zazdrości i nienawiści, to znajdz...
You'd think he'd look more ashamed of himself, said Bertie. You'd think that he'd look more ashamed of being a Campbell.
You may think this a strange story, but it is not. There are people whose lives are every bit as unusual as Bobby Box's--I can promise you that. Not all of them end as well, of course. For many people...
You have to tell her that you have forgiven what she did to you. You have that duty because we all of us have it. It comes in different forms, but it is always the same duty. We have to forgive.
William’s weekend with his friends, Geoffrey and Maggie, was turning out to be neither restful nor enjoyable. Things could have been worse, of course: there must be weekends during which the hosts’ ho...
When somebody does wrong, Emma, we must remember that that person is still a human being like the rest of us. We must not rush to throw the first stone. We must remind ourselves that all of us do wron...
What I said to you was private. We can have private reservations about a person’s work, but that doesn’t mean to say that we have to spell those out to him. It’s called tact, Isabel!
We should all have a tree in our childhood...a tree one might explore, a tree from which one might learn how to fall.
We all know that it is women who make the decisions, but we have to let men think that the decisions are theirs. It is an act of kindness on the part of women.
Violins sang, brass crowed, while bassoons, she felt, rumbled according to a Richter scale all of their own. Charlie
Very... She left the word hanging. Very unfinished, thought Isabel. The woman finished her sentence. Very beautiful. Oh, really! thought Isabel. The verdict from others was much the same. Oh well, tho...
To be free Is often to be lonely. He would unite The unequal moieties fractured By our own well-meaning sense of justice Would restore to the larger the wit and will The smaller possess but can only u...
This tea is for people who really appreciate tea. Ordinary tea is for anyone.
There's a difference, I think, between falling in love and knowing it.
There were times when life’s problems were convincingly outweighed by its possibilities, and this, she felt, was one.