I have yet to find a genre of music I enjoy; it’s basically audible physics, waves and energized particles, and, like most sane people, I have no interest in physics. It therefore struck me as bizarre...
I finally managed to open the door, but couldn’t raise my head, didn’t have the strength to look up. At least the banging had stopped. That was my only objective. Jesus Christ! a man’s voice said. Ele...
I feel sorry for beautiful people. Beauty, from the moment you possess it, is already slipping away, ephemeral. That must be difficult. Always having to prove that there's more to you, wanting people...
I do exist, don’t I? It often feels as if I’m not here, that I’m a figment of my own imagination. There are days when I feel so lightly connected to the earth that the threads that tether me to the pl...
I allowed my mind to wander. I’ve found this to be a very effective way of passing the time; you take a situation or a person and start to imagine nice things that might happen. You can make anything...
How marvelous to be able to read someone’s skin, to explore the story of his life across his chest, his arms, the softness at the back of his neck. The barman had roses and a treble clef, a cross, a w...
Hay mucha gente que se cría en circunstancias mucho más adversas. La vida tiene estas cosas.
Es igual de injusto desagradar a alguien por ser atractivo que por tener una deformidad.
Did you enjoy yourself?' I asked.'Mmm,' he said. 'It was fun, wasn't it?' He wasn't using a knife, but held a fork in his right hand like a child or an American. He smiled.
Did I…did I look like the kind of person to be avoided in a game of bus seat selection?
A veces lo único que necesitas es tener a alguien agradable a tu lado mientras lidias con las cosas.
When you took a moment to see what was around you, noticed all the little things, it made you feel....lighter.
I'd worked out that social success is often built on pretending just a little. Popular people sometimes have to laugh at things they don't find very funny, do things they don't particularly want to, w...
Intervene. He’d elected to look after me himself. I’d been pondering this, and concluded that there must be some people for whom difficult behaviour wasn’t a reason to end their relationship with you.
[…] La soledad está marcada por el intento de llevar a término la experiencia; algo que no puede conseguirse solo con fuerza de voluntad o saliendo más, sino desarrollando vínculos íntimos. Es mucho m...
Why is it that client-facing jobs hold such allure for misanthropes?
The world just went on, regardless of what happened. That’s how it works.
She looked at him with so much love that I had to turn away. At least I know what love looks like, I told myself. That's something. No one had ever looked at me like that, but I'd be able to recognize...
My phone doesn’t ring often—it makes me jump when it does—and it’s usually people asking if I’ve been mis-sold Payment Protection Insurance. I whisper I know where you live to them, and hang up the ph...
My life, I realized, had gone wrong. Very, very wrong. I wasn’t supposed to live like this. No one was supposed to live like this. The problem was that I simply didn’t know how to make it right.