Adults could be barefaced liars too, of course, and about no subject so much as their own bodies. In Lib's experience, those who wouldn't cheat a shopkeeper by a farthing would lie about how much bran...
It was the word 'late' that did it. Such a stupid word to use of the dead, implying that they would be with us today if they hadn't happened to be delayed in traffic somewhere...
Any subject we exclude from fiction will drop from our culture's memory.
When I was a little kid I thought like a little kid, but now I'm five I know everything
I’ve been in the world three weeks and a half, I still never know what’s going to hurt.
He supposed it was always that way with the dead, they slid away before we knew enough to ask them the right questions.
For some people, she thought, trials were only temporary; they sailed towards happiness through the roughest weather.
Thinks now. And sometimes, Little One. It’s quite mysterious to
The thing is to take your life in your hands.
The human mind needs boundaries. Without them it would fall in on itself, like a crushed honeycomb.
Sometimes words were like glass that broke in her mouth.
So this was liberty. Mary was beginning to recognise the taste of it in her mouth: terror salting the sweetness.
I think the sea’s just rain and salt.Ever taste a tear? asks Grandma.Yeah.Well, that’s the same as the sea.I still don’t want to walk in it if it’s tears.
I looked in my mirror and saw, not myself, but every place I'd never been.
I bang my head on a faucet. Careful. Why do persons only say that after the hurt?
Checkup? I said
Good nurses follow rules, Lib growled, but the best know when to break them.
Better keep your mouth shut and seem stupid than open it and remove all doubt.
They used to draw a skull at the bottom of a tankard, so when you’d drained it you’d be reminded you were going to die someday.
There are some tales not for telling, whether because they are too long, too precious, too laughable, too painful, too easy to need telling or too hard to explain. After all, after years and travels m...