Everything tender and melancholy - as life is sometimes, just for one moment.
And I’ll look back at him because I shan’t be able to help it, remembering about being young, and about being made love to and making love, about pain and dancing and not being afraid of death, about...
Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere.
She had left me thirsty and all my life would be thirst and longing for what I had lost before I found it.
Only the magic and the dream are true — all the rest's a lie.
I wanted it-like iron.
But why do you want to talk to me?' He is going to say: 'Because you look so kind,' or 'Because you look so beautiful and kind,' or, subtly, 'Because you look as if you'll understand....' He says: 'Be...
Quite like old times,' the room says.
'The fact is,' said Norah, 'that there's something wrong with our family. We're soft, or lazy, or something.'
Not that she objected to solitude. Quite the contrary. She had books, thank Heaven, quantities of books. All sorts of books.
I hope that gay gentleman will be safe,' I said.
But what if it were heaven when she got there?
Unhappily children do hurt flies
She’ll have no lover, for I don’t want her and she’ll see no other.
It was like letting go and falling back into water and seeing yourself grinning up through the water, your face like a mask, and seeing the bubbles coming up as if you were trying to speak from under...
If all good, respectable people had one face, I'd spit in it.
As for her, I'd forgotten her for the moment. So I shall never understand why, suddenly, bewilderingly, I was certain that everything I had imagined to be truth was false. False. Only the magic and th...
Almost any book was better than life, Audrey thought. Or rather, life as she was living it. Of course, life would soon change, open out, become quite different. You couldn't go on if you didn't hope t...
Your husband certainly love money,' she said. 'That is no lie Money have pretty face for everybody, but for that man money pretty like pretty self, he can't see nothing else.
Why did you make me want to live? Why did you do that to me?