He remembered being here with Clark at three or four sometimes five in the morning, during what seemed at the time like adulthood and seemed in retrospect like a dream.
If nothing else, it's pleasant to consider the possibility. He likes the thought of ships moving over the water, toward another world just out of sight.
High-functioning sleepwalkers, essentially.
Trinity bomb test in
They resumed their cautious progress
Κόλαση είναι η απουσία των ανθρώπων που λαχταράς
Isn't indiscretion the very definition of weakness?
Hell is the absence of the people you long for
Love is like the lion's tooth.
The king stood in a pool of blue light, unmoored.
Jeevan’s understanding of disaster preparedness was based entirely on action movies, but on the other hand, he’d seen a lot of action movies.
The thing with the new world, the tuba had said once, is it’s just horrifically short on elegance.
Nothing is over yet, she told herself. The cat's still inside.
I was thinking earlier that to know this city you must first become penniless, because pennilessness (real pennilessness, I mean not having $2 for the subway) forces you to walk everywhere and you see...
How could so many die so quickly? The numbers seemed impossible.
Dr. Eleven: What was it like for you, at the end? Captain Lonagan: It was exactly like waking up from a dream.
Clark liked to think he knew London but the truth was he'd spent most of his adult life in New York, secure within the confines of Manhattan's idiot-proof grid, and on this particular evening London's...
She was thinking about the container-ship fleet on the horizon. The crew out there wouldn’t have been exposed to the flu. Too late to get to a ship herself now, but she smiled at the thought that ther...
She liked books, but the hours spent in small-town libraries were tedious, and she began the first list when she was eight or nine as a means of distraction. A list of names, eventually expanding to t...
No one ever thinks they’re awful, even people who really actually are.