I was beautiful, or so my father told me. My oval mirror showed me a face with nothing written on it. I had suitors aplenty but wanted none of them: their doggish devotion seemed too easily won. I had...
I may have had moments of regret in my life, but you know, they wouldn't add up to an hour.
I don't like a clever toilet looking at our butts.
For some people, she thought, trials were only temporary; they sailed towards happiness through the roughest weather.
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
Las personas se mueven tanto por el mundo que constantemente se pierden cosas
I tell you frankly, Mrs. Damer, the more I see of different nations, the less sure I feel about the pre-eminence of my own.
He supposed it was always that way with the dead, they slid away before we knew enough to ask them the right questions.
Fate was faceless, life arbitrary, a tale told by an idiot.
Thinks now. And sometimes, Little One. It’s quite mysterious to
The paper
The human mind needs boundaries. Without them it would fall in on itself, like a crushed honeycomb.
I’ve been in the world three weeks and a half, I still never know what’s going to hurt.
I bang my head on a faucet. Careful. Why do persons only say that after the hurt?
Checkup? I said
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.
Their next reunion shifted like an oasis on the horizon, and Jude couldn't plot her course. She trudged through her days, haunted by the feeling that real life was happening five thousand kilometers a...
The thing is to take your life in your hands.
On the whole I am inclined to think that a witch should not kiss. Perhaps it is the not being kissed that makes her a witch; perhaps the source of her power is the breath of loneliness around her.