The imagination is a healthy thing, and a great many scientific discoveries could not have been made without it, but it need to be harnessed to some serious object if it is to come to anything.
Remembered the words of the man in the brown suit, and how they had echoed around the rafters of my rooms under the eaves. Yet the man in the brown suit was a figment of her imagination. I should have...
Made
If you can only learn to see them. The truth had been there all along, only now had I seen
Do you believe in ghosts?
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...
When fear and cold make a statue of you in your bed, don’t expect hard-boned and fleshless truth to come running to your aid. What you need are the plump comforts of a story. The soothing, rocking saf...
Water, like God, moves in mysterious ways. Once inside a house, it obeys the force of gravity indirectly. Inside walls and under floors it finds secret gullies and runways; it seeps and trickles in un...
Tú estás viva; pero estar viva no es lo mismo que vivir.
Then something rang a bell in his mind. What
The letter Q for question, seared into human flesh. As I started to sleepwrite my questions, the margin seemed to expand. The paper throbbed with light. Swelling, it engulfed me, until I realized with...
The incendiary magic she possessed was so strong she could set fire to water if she wanted to badly enough.
Shirley goes over the edge. I don’t like games like this. Now George Sand starts to go up in flames. I sighed and closed my eyes. Wuthering Heights
She was too old to be young and other women her age had been crossed off the list of women suitable for appraisal,
Prescription: 'Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes. Take ten pages, twice a day, til end of course.
Over and over. I was tempting fate. What would happen, I wondered, if the wall came down? Would the roof cave in? Would the weight of it falling cause the floorboards to collapse? Would roof tiles and...
Moments came back to him when he had behaved less honorably than he wished. He remembered instances of neglect and ingratitude. He felt the pang of remorse and resolved not to do the same again.
I've nothing against people who love truth. Apart from the fact that they make dull companions.
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...
Then into a space where there seemed to be nothing but mist. When we came to a wall of yew twice as high as Aurelius himself, we followed it. I noticed a sparkling in the grass and on the leaves: The...