And she passed through the stage door and was inside the theater. Her heart was still beating fast, and her hands were burning, but she felt steadier suddenly, the feeling of panic had gone from her....
An armchair is always an armchair, to the modern child, never a ship, never a desert island. The pattern on the wall are patterns; not characters whose faces change at dusk... The trouble is, the chil...
A master glass-maker must accustom himself to moving on. In old days they had always been wanderers, going from one forest to another, settling for a few years only.
A dreamer, I walked enchanted, and nothing held me back.
His warm eyes that made her heart feel daft like a bleating sheep.
Houve um excesso de melodrama na minha vida, e daria tudo para conservar a paz e a tranquilidade conquistadas. A Felicidade não é uma coisa concreta – é uma qualidade do pensamento, um estado de espír...
—No. Te estoy proponiendo que te cases conmigo, pequeña tontaina.
When speaking, Aunt Patience avoided her eyes, and the very fluency of her words was in itself suspicious. She spoke much as a child does who tells herself a story and has a talent for invention. It h...
The rank and melancholy smell of charred wet wood and sodden leaves coming towards me on a wisp of air.
Many impressions to seize and hold, familiar loved façades, balconies, windows, water lapping the cellar steps of decaying palaces, the little red house where D’Annunzio lived, with its garden—our hou...
Boredom is a pleasing antidote to fear.
You talked to me of being young, I said to Jake, you talked this evening on the bridge of losing something I would never understand. Don’t you see what all that has meant to me? I was a boy without th...
You have qualities that are just as important, far more so, in fact. It's perhaps cheeky of me to say so, I don't know you very well. I'm a bachelor, I don't know very much about women, I lead a quiet...
You have only to look at his eyes. He's still in hell...
You have never lived anywhere else, he said, and you are not an individual at all, you’re just a hotch-potch of every character you’ve ever acted. Your mood and your personality change with each new p...
You had to endure something yourself before it touched you.
When the last toast had been given my mother had to take off her finery and put on a traveling dress, then mount one of the foundry wagons with the rest of them, and so drive away to her new home in t...
When she smiled it was as though she embraced the world.
When I lie I like to base the lie on a foundation of fact, for it appeases not only conscience but a sense of justice.
What was the point of having a man if all he could do was turn his back and sleep? Not that she wanted him to do anything else, but in a way it was an insult. The turned back reminded her of all the v...