The storyteller gave me a sideways look. Miss Lea, it doesn’t do to get attached to these secondary characters. It’s not their story. They come, they go, and when they go they’re gone for good. That’s...
There is something about words. In expert hands, manipulated deftly, they take you prisoner. Wind themselves around your limbs like spider silk, and when you are so enthralled you cannot move, they pi...
They are more real than the books on the shelves, books that are sketched with the barest hint of a line here and there, fading in places to a ghostly nothingness. Why recall the picture now, you must...
They were not willfully cruel, you know. Only foolish. Misguided by their learning, their ambition, their own self-deceiving blindness.
This might seem excessive; ten years of marriage is usually enough to cure marital affection,
Un nacimiento no es, en realidad, una introducción. Nuestra vida, cuando empieza, no es realmente nuestra, sino la continuación de la historia de otro.
We had reached tipping point. It was no longer possible to call it a demolition site. Tomorrow, today perhaps, the workers would return and it would become a construction site. The past demolished, it...
We were both lone twins.
What good is truth, at midnight, in the dark, when the wind is roaring like a bear in the chimney?
Why do you come here, Aurelius?
But no matter how far I forgot myself, I never quite lost my sense of being watched over, and when I got particularly lost, it was the gaze of the cat that seemed to reach into my muddle and light my...
Copper curls turned. I was stunned. The glasses were gone. Green eyes, bright as glass and as real,
Do you believe in ghosts?
Followed the thread of his voice in the air.
Her fear of action was overtaken by her fear of inaction.
Just want to take some photographs. I don’t think the weather is on my side, though. You’ll get to see it properly within the hour. This mist won’t last long.
Just ’cause a thing’s impossible don’t mean it can’t happen.
My hunger for books was constant.
Spaces beneath our feet, in the fractures and voids in the rock, in caverns and fissures and channels, there are waterways as numerous, as meandering, as circuitous, as anything aboveground. The begin...
The price they must pay for escaping their destiny.
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