A silence on the tors that belonged to another age; an age that is past and vanished as though it had never been, an age when man did not exist, but pagan footsteps trod upon the hills. And there was...
Where do they go, Sophie, those younger selves of ours? How do they vanish and dissolve? They don’t, I said. They’re with us always, like little shadows, ghosting us through life. I’ve been aware of m...
We all of us have our particular devil who ruses us and torments us, and we must give battle in the end.
Was it true the lovely part of love only lasted a moment and the sorrow went on for a lifetime?
This house sheltered us, we spoke, we lived within those walls. That was yesterday.
Thinking never did anybody any good
There was something strangely peaceful about the house, something very rare and difficult to define. It was like a house in an old tale, discovered by the hero one evening in midsummer; there should b...
There was silence between them for moment, and she wondered if all women, when in love, were torn between two impulses, a longing to throw modesty and reserve to the winds and confess everything, and...
The world of today asleep, and my world not awakened, or not as yet, until the drug possessed me.
The waiters were getting tired, and very bored. The Head Waiter came again and pushed the bill on a plate, neatly folded, under Pappy’s eyes. What’s this? said Pappy. Somebody want my autograph? Who’s...
The experts are right, he thought. Venice is sinking. The whole city is slowly dying. One day the tourists will travel here by boat to peer down into the waters, and they will see pillars and columns...
Tall and dark she was. She gave you the feeling of a snake. I seen her here with me own eyes. By night she'd come.
Samuel had strengthened the blood-tie between them, but no more than this. They would cherish each other in sickness and in health, walk through life sharing its pleasures and its sorrows, sleep side...
Richard turned and saw me. And as he looked at me it was as if my whole heart moved over in my body and was mine no longer
Perhaps we shall not see each other again. I will write to you, though, and tell you, as best as I can, the story of your family. A glass-blower, remember, breathes life into a vessel, giving it shape...
No. Monsieur Ledru mused, as though he had but half heard. Then with a start: Oh, but most certainly not. No, it is rather a heaviness upon the mind—a weight as of lead upon brain and thoughts, while...
My brother Jem, damn him, he was the baby. Hanging onto mother’s skirts when Matt and I were grown men. I never did see eye to eye with Jem. Too smart he is, too sharp with his tongue. Oh, they’ll cat...
Mary shook her head. ‘I’ve only seen the evil,’ she said; ‘I’ve only seen the suffering there’s been, and the cruelty, and the pain. When my uncle came to Jamaica Inn he must have cast his shadow over...
Looking from the window at the fantastic light and colour of my glittering fairy-world of fact that holds no tenderness, no quietude, I long suddenly for peace, for understanding.
La felicidad no es un bien que pueda atesorarse; es una manera de pensar, un estado de ánimo.