Love without desire, or conditions, or limits - a pure and radiant glow in the heart that could make me giddy and sad and glorious all at once.
Dancing?, ventured Portia. I do so prefer dancing to suffering, don't you, Nerissa?You speak as if one must choose one over another. For every gentleman who has turned you around a ballroom can attest...
Winter denial: therein lay the key to California Schadenfreude--the secret joy that the rest of the country feels at the misfortune of California. The country said: Look at them, with their fitness an...
La Cadillac Eldorado Brougham del 1957 era l'incarnazione perfetta dell'esibizionismo, tra le macchine d morte. Quasi tre tonnellate di acciaio unite insieme a fare una bestia dalle fauci enormi e dal...
Mankind, I suppose, is designed to run on - to be motivated by - temptation. If progress is a virtue then this is our greatest gift. (For what is curiosity if not intellectual temptation? And what pro...
People always stay the age that they died at. My big brother died of leukemia when I was six. He was eight. Now when I think of him, he's always eight, and he's still my big brother. He never changes,...
The Holy Mother has many faces, but you know it's her from her blue cloak. She is said to be the spirit in all women. Look, here she is naked and the baby Jesus has wings, said Lucien.That is not the...
Faith isn't an act of intelligence, it's an act of imagination.
Slowly and gently, Augustus Brine explained to the king of the Djinn about the illusion created by motion pictures. When he finished, he felt like he had just raped the tooth fairy in front of a class...
Most of us don't live our lives with one, integrated self that meets the world, we're a whole bunch of selves.
In fact, amid all the musical laments over not having a heart, a brain, or the nerve, did anyone notice that they didn’t have a penis among them? I think it would have shown on the Lion and the Tin Ma...
No matter where he went in the City, there was an odoriferous mix of food and vehicles, like the alchemic concoctions of some mad gourmet mechanic: Kung Pao Saab Turbo, Buick Skylark Carbonara, Sweet-...
Don’t be so hard on yourself, You’re doing the same thing, trying to reconcile all the moms that Mom ever was - The one you wanted, the one she was when you needed her and she was there, the one she w...
These dogs are not fighting.Yes they are. Like the paintings we saw in the Louvre, said Lucien. Gecko-Roman wrestling Father called it.Ah, of course, said Pissarro, as if it had become clear. Yes, Gec...
Sweet Pocket, you mustn’t ask about my life before I came here. What I am now, I have always been, and everything I am is here with you. Sweet Thalia, said I. That is a fiery flagon of dragon toss.
Stop, I said. Please do not further endorken yourself to me. You have great hair and a car that is most fly, and you have just saved me with your mad ninja driving skills, so do not sully your heroic...
For the tourist, immersed in the oblivion of vacation spending, Cypress Street provided a bonanza of curious gifts to prove to the folks back home that they had been somewhere. Somewhere where they ha...
Scratch a cynic and you will find a disappointed romantic.
Is it so hard for you to give up what you never had?
You've always been broken, love, it's the crux of your character.
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