Wait! he said. Hold your scolding till you know what I have come to tell you!
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.
The end of my nine o’clocks was another anchor in time gone.
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...
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...
She could not read a book for fear of the feelings she might find in it.
Seventeen years being neither a very short nor a very long time, Phillip was remembered and misremembered in equal measure.
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...
Our clients' faces, with the customary outward paleness and inner glow of the book lover.
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.
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...
Of course I loved books more than people. Of course I valued Jane Eyre over the anonymous stranger...Of course all of Shakespeare was worth more than a human life.
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.
It doesn't do to get attached to these secondary characters. It's not their story. They come and go, and when they go, they're gone for good.
In short, Emmeline adapted to her twin’s absence. She learned how to exist apart. Yet still they reconnected and were twins again. Though Emmeline was not the same twin as before, and this was somethi...
If you dazzle a man with green eyes, he'll be so hypnotized that he won't notice there is something inside the eyes spying on him.
I will ask you three things. Things that are a matter of public record. When I leave here, I will be able to check what you tell me. If I find you have told me the truth about them, I will accept the...
I read novels. The reason is simple: I prefer proper endings. Marriages and deaths, noble sacrifices and miraculous restorations, tragic separations and unhoped-for reunions, great falls and dreams f...