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...
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...
And then it occurred to her that she was already feeling that she would need to remember this room, her sister, this scene, as though from a distance.
She still stopped when her mind moved towards real fear or dread or, worse, towards the thought that she was going to lose this world for ever, that she would never have an ordinary day again in this...
What is hard to understand is that our dreams matter
The men could be easily distinguished as fellow Americans by the quality of their mustaches and the innocent and amicable expressions on their faces; the several women could only have come from New En...
She tried to think of Tony now as a loving and comforting presence, but she saw instead someone she was allied with whether she liked it or not, someone who was, she thought, unlikely to allow her to...
She felt almost guilty that she had handed some of her grief to him, and then she felt close to him for his willingness to take it and hold it, in all its rawness, all its dark confusion.
Memory fills my body as much as blood and bones.
Maybe, she thought, they had never known her, any of them, because if they had, then they would have had to realize what this would be like for her. She
I’m hungry. We’re all hungry. But, darling, you don’t need to look hungry. Pretend you are full. And
It had been easier to present a self in full possession of pride and confidence.
Even when she woke in the night and thought about it, she did not allow herself to conclude that she did not want to go.
А междувременно имам само тази къща,тази светлина, тази свобода, и ще прекарвам времето, стига да имам нужната смелост, в съзерцаване на морето, ще отбелязвам промените му и звуците, които издава, ще...
The world has loosened, like a woman preparing for bed who lets her hair flow free. And I am whispering the words, knowing that words matter, and smiling as I say them to the shadows of the gods of th...
New people arrive and they could be Jewish or Irish or Polish or even coloured. Our old customers are moving out to Long Island and we can't follow them, so we need new customers every week. We treat...
New people arrive and tehy cold be Jewish or Irish or Polish or even coloured. Our old customers are moving out to Long Island and we can't follow them, so we need new customers every week. We treat e...
If you don’t make mistakes, they’ll notice you and they’ll get to like you,’ she added. Eilis
I told him before he departed that all my life when I have seen more than two men together I have seen foolishness and I have seen cruelty, but it is foolishness I have noticed first.
I have to give up everything, the house, the servants, my friends, my whole life. I will freeze to death or I will die of boredom. It will be a race between the two.