I’d expected that I would expand to fit the experience automatically, that I would get my first glimpse of the person I was destined to be.
I was not transparent, that she could not see straight through me,
I was in a kind of no-man's-land, a place between places. The mind plays all sorts of tricks, gets up to all kinds of things while we ourselves are slumbering in a white zone that looks for all the wo...
I must photograph you again, he said as he rinsed the plate.What's wrong with this one?Nothing. He wanted her at every angle, in every possible lighting, in all moods and all positions. He wanted her...
For at eight o’clock the world came to an end. It was reading time. The hours between eight in the evening and one or two in the morning have always been my magic hours.
For all my biographical projects I have kept a box of lives. A box of index cards containing the details—name, occupation, dates, place of residence and any other piece of information that seems relev...
Do you know the feeling when you start reading a new book before the membrane of the last one has had time to close behind you? You leave the previous book with ideas and themes – characters even – ca...
Art, its completeness, its formedness, its finishedness, had no power to console. Words, on the other hand, were a lifeline.
A story so cherished it has to be dressed in casualness to disguise its significance in case the listener turned out to be unsympathetic.
A story so cherished it had to be dressed in casualness to disguise its significance in case the listener turned out to be unsympathetic.
If you can only learn to see them. The truth had been there all along, only now had I seen
Flat brown bangs, my straight skirt and navy cardigan.
Yesterday or the day before, while I had been going about my business, quietly and in private, some unknown person—some stranger—had gone to the trouble of marking my name onto this envelope. Who was...
There are cultures in which it is believed that a name contains all a person’s mystical power. That a name should be known only to God and to the person who holds it and to very few privileged others....
The tears I gratified him with were fake ones. Ones that set off my green eyes the way diamonds set off emeralds. And it worked. If you dazzled a man with green eyes, he will be so hypnotized that he...
The incendiary magic she possessed was so strong she could set fire to water if she wanted to badly enough.
She was too old to be young and other women her age had been crossed off the list of women suitable for appraisal,
Quale sostegno, quale consolazione nella Verità, a paragone di una storia? A che giova la Verità a mezzanotte, al buio, quando il vento ruggisce nel comignolo come un orso? Quando il lampo sprigiona o...
Prescription: 'Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes. Take ten pages, twice a day, til end of course.
One should always pay attention to ghosts, shouldn’t one, Miss Lea?