Installed herself as Wedding Obergruppenführer.
His unhappiness was our fault. My mother and I got on his nerves. It was because of us he had a job he couldn’t stand. Everything we did was irritating. He particularly didn’t enjoy being around me, n...
Even if we’re not always so glad to be here, it’s our task to immerse ourselves anyway: wade straight through it, right through the cesspool, while keeping eyes and hearts open.
Distracted themselves with all kinds of gadgets and devices, flooding themselves incessantly with information and texts and communication and entertainment from every direction to try to make themselv...
Dingbat,
But the first rule of restorations, as he'd taught me earlier on, was that you never did what you couldn't reverse.
And felt the strangeness of the city pressing in all around me, smells of tobacco and malt and nutmeg, café walls the melancholy brown of an old leather-bound book and then beyond, dark passages and b...
A light that made me think of long hours in dusty libraries, and old books, and silence.
You know what Picasso says. ‘Bad artists copy, good artists steal.
You can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again. You can also look at a picture for a second and think of it all your life.
With mahogany in particular, it’s so tightly grained,
With a beautiful girl I could have consoled myself that she was out of my league; that I was so haunted and stirred even by her plainness suggested—ominously—a love more binding than physical affectio...
Who was it said that coincidence was just God’s way of remaining anonymous?Now you really sound like my dad.Who’s to say that gamblers don’t really understand it better than anyone else? Isn’t everyth...
While to a certain extent Milton is right-the mind is its own place and in itself can make a Heaven of Hall and so forth-it is nonetheless clear that Plano was modeled less on Paradise than that other...
When we are strongest—who draws back? Most merry—who falls down laughing? When we are very bad,—what can they do to us? —ARTHUR RIMBAUD
What you want is to live and be happy in the world is a woman (or man) who has her (his) own life and lets you have yours
What mattered more was the feeling, a rich sweet undertow so commanding that in class, on the school bus, lying in bed trying to think of something safe or pleasant, some environment or configuration...
Well, she doesn’t have anything to do with it, Richard, you’re just like that guy in ‘Dragnet’ that always wants the facts.
We were easily forgotten. It was a social and moral lesson, if nothing else. But for all foreseeable time to come — for as long as history was written, until the icecaps melted and the streets of Amst...
We think we have many desires, but in fact we have only one. What is it? To live, said Camilla. To live forever,