And why must it always be presumed that a woman's views are based on personal considerations?
An obsession, a mania, Lib supposed it could be called. A sickness of the mind. Hysteria, as that awful doctor had named it? Anna reminded Lib of a princess under a spell in a fairy tale. What could r...
Also everywhere I'm looking at kids, adults mostly don't seem to like them, not even the parents do. They call the kids gorgeous and so cute, they make the kids do the thing all over again so they can...
Sentences swallowed and sung back and swallowed all over again. She was made entirely out of words.
So they're fake?No, no. Stories are a different kind of true.I look back one more time. It's like a crater, a hole where something happened. Then we go out the door.
[She] was easy to enjoy but hard to know....It’s unbearable, the not knowing.
You, she thought. Every flawed, scrawny,
When she pulled the ribbon out of her mattress, at first light the next morning, it was brown.
When Jack just rescued her Ma's, just succeeded doing the Great Escape:Want to go to Bed.They'll find us somewhere to sleep in a little while. No. .You mean in Room? Ma's pulled back, she's staring in...
When I was four I thought everything in TV was just TV, then I was five and Ma unlied about lots of it being pictures of real and Outside being totally real. Now I’m in Outside but it turns out lots o...
What started Baby Jesus growing in Mary's tummy was an angel zoomed down, like a ghost but a really cool one with feathers. Mary was all surprised, she said, How can this be? and then, OK let it be. W...
We spend most of our lives holding on to objects, he thought, and finally they fall from our cold dead hands and those who tidy up after us have the worry of what to do with all this stuff.
We Irish have a gift for resignation. Or, put another way, fatalism.
Want to go to Bed.They'll find us somewhere to sleep in a little while. No. Bed.You mean in Room? Ma's pulled back, she's staring in my eyes.Yeah. I've seen the world and I'm tired now.
Vitamins are medicine for not getting sick and going back to Heaven yet.
The world is always changing brightness and hotness and soundness, I never know how it's going to be the next minute.
The watch has altered the situation that's being watched.
The Times had announced that seven thousand pounds had been raised to send a party of Englishwomen to the Crimea as nurses. That, Lib had thought, with dread but also a sense of daring, I believe I co...
The Dora bag has straps, it’s like Backpack but with Dora on it instead of Backpack’s face. It has a handle too, when I try it pulls up, I think I broke it, but then it rolls, it’s a wheelie bag and a...
Same old notes, Blanche thinks at one point, but arranged into unfamiliar music.