On those days when he could not spend half an hour in the company of a good book, he felt deprived.
But he is a man, hence cannot see how tiresome it is to have explained at length what one has already fully understood.
«Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Los casos de Sherlock Holmes. Tomar diez páginas, dos veces al día, hasta finalizar el tratamiento».
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...
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.
Her eyelids were colored purple, lined Cleopatra-style with kohl and fringed with the same heavy black lashes as yesterday. In the clear daylight I saw what I had not seen the night before: along the...
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...
But I have come to see that when two people work closely together on a joint project—two intelligent people, I mean to say—a bond of communication develops between them that can enhance their work.
Any number of peas under the mattress and I would not know it—
William Henry Cadwalladr
Un nacimiento no es, en realidad, una introducción. Nuestra vida, cuando empieza, no es realmente nuestra, sino la continuación de la historia de otro.
This might seem excessive; ten years of marriage is usually enough to cure marital affection,
They were not willfully cruel, you know. Only foolish. Misguided by their learning, their ambition, their own self-deceiving blindness.
There is something about words.
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...
The steps were flanked by a pair of low pedestals, on which were mounted two giant cats carved out of some dark, polished material. The undulations of their anatomy were so persuasively carved that, r...
Nos acostumbramos tanto a nuestros propios horrores que olvidamos el efecto que pueden tener en otras personas.
Never let time be your master,' Bellman told Verney when he asked about it. 'If you want to do something, take it on. Time will always make itself.
I know,' he said, because he was human, and therefore, in a way, he did.
I believe you, I repeated, my tongue thick with all the waiting words. I’ve had that feeling, too. Knowing things you can’t know. From before you can remember. And there it was again! A sudden movemen...