Imaginings and resonances and pain and small longings and prejudices. They mean nothing against the resolute hardness of the sea. They meant less than the marl and the mud and the dry clay of the clif...
I do not know why it matters that I should tell the truth to myself at night, why it should matter that the truth should be spoken at least once in the world. Because the world is a place of silence,...
He was the boy I had given birth to and he was more defenceless now than he had been then.
Finally, she let herself feel how much she had lost, how much she would miss.
By day the old area of Barcelona is bustling, full of shouting, hammering, drilling and shutters being pulled up and down. You listen out for sounds.If you want a replacement gas cylinder you wait for...
As they looked at one another, Nora felt Fiona was hostile, and forced herself to remember how upset she must be, and how lonely she might be too. She smiled as she said that they would have to go and...
And she saw all three of them—Tony, Jim, her mother—as figures whom she could only damage, as innocent people surrounded by light and clarity, and circling around them was herself, dark, uncertain.
Не знам колко време щеше да оцелее на брега, ако не го бях спасил. Нямам представа колко трае животът на камъните по уексфордските плажове.
More she thought about it the more she came
It was
What is hard to understand is that our dreams matter
We live in a strange time,’ Electra said. ‘A time when the gods are fading. Some of us still see them but there are times when we don’t. Their power is waning. Soon, it will be a different world. It w...
Wait until you’re old, Nora, she said, and then you’ll know. It’s the mixture of being content with even the smallest thing and then feeling a great dissatisfaction with everything.
Time and patience would bring a snail to America,' he repeated.
Some people are nice and if you talk to them properly, they can be even nicer. -Rose
I’m hungry. We’re all hungry. But, darling, you don’t need to look hungry. Pretend you are full. And
It was later, when she got home and lay in the bed after her evening meal, that the day she had just spent would seem like one of the longest of her life as she would find herself going through it sce...
I saw him trying to struggle and call out. But because of the robe, he could not move and his voice could not be heard. I caught his hair and pulled his head back. I showed him the knife, pointing it...
I have been acquainted with the smell of death. The sickly, sugary smell that wafted in the wind towards the rooms in this palace. It is easy now for me to feel peaceful and content.
Here in this cemetery, which they began to stroll around once more, the state of not-knowing and not-feeling which belonged to the dead seemed to him closer to resolved happiness than he had ever imag...