To anyone who took the trouble to look, I was plainly visible, but when people are expecting to see nothing, that is usually what they see.
There is something about words.
The key that sits in the lock, unused since the days of Hester, is hot. It burns my palm as I turn it.
The almanac cut her and her babies adrift; she and they fell into the vast ocean of ordinary people, whose births and deaths and marriages are, like their loves and fears and breakfast preferences, to...
Sometimes when you open the door to the past, what you confront is your destiny.
Someone had told him once that the desire to do something well is a good indicator of talent.
So much science has at its root the ability to see afresh what has been seen and thought to be understood for centuries.
Sin duda, una buena historia deslumbra mucho más que un pedazo de verdad.
She's not coming back.No. He knew it was true. He had the feeling that the world might easily stop turning without the girl in it. Every hour was arduous, and when it was over, you had to start again...
She had suffered longer, and she had suffered more. Each second was agony in the first weeks. She was like an amputee in the days before anesthesia, half crazed with pain, astounded that the human bod...
Seventeen years being neither a very short nor a very long time, Phillip was remembered and misremembered in equal measure.
Readers, continued Miss Winter, are fools. They believe all writing is autobiographical. And so it is, but not in the way they think. The writer's life needs time to rot away before it can be used to...
Quite by chance, her talk of ghosts comes on the very day the book I am in the middle of reading has completely disappeared, only to be replaced by a novella by Henry James.
Our lives are so important to us that we tend to think the story of them begins with our birth. First there was nothing, then Iwas born…Yet that is not so. Human lives are not pieces of string that ca...
Our lives are so important to us that we tend to think the story of them begins with our birth. First there was nothing, then I was born... Yet that is not so. Human lives are not pieces of string tha...
One of the first keys to success, he considered, was to recognize the difference between problems you could do something about and problems you could do nothing about.
One needs no particular talent to be polite. On the contrary, being nice is what's left when you've failed at everything else.
Oh, my poor child. I felt the touch of Miss Winter’s hand on my shoulder, and while I cried over the corpses of my broken words, her hand remained there, lightly.
Of course I recognized it. How could I not, for I had read it goodness knows how many times. 'Jane Eyre,' I said wonderingly. 'You recognized it? Yes, it is. I asked a man in a library. It's by Charlo...
No conviene encariñarse con los personajes secundarios. No es su historia. Vienen, se van, y una vez que se han ido ya no vuelven. Eso es todo.