I dreamed I was a single moment in a single day. A note struck and vanished. A sounding. A reckoning. Gone.
I don't know how to answer. I know what to think, but words in the head are like voices under water. They are distorted.
I do not accept that life has an ordinary shape, or that there is anything ordinary about life at all. We make it ordinary, but it is not.
I decided to apply to read English at the University of Oxford because it was the most impossible thing I could do.
I am desperately looking the other way so that love won’t see me.
Homelessness is illegal. In my city no one is homeless although there are an increasing number of criminals living on the street. It was smart to turn an abandones class into a criminal class, sometim...
Here's my life - I have to mine it, farm it, trade it, tenant it, and when the lease is up it cannot be renewed.
He hates for hate's sake. There are people like that. People who have everything. Money, power, sex. When they have everything they play for more sophisticated stakes than the rest of us. There are no...
He had seen the vision of perfect heroism and, for a fleeting moment, the vision of perfect peace. He sought it again, to balance him. He was a warrior who longed to grow herbs.
Hardship is a man-made device because man cannot exist without passion. Religion is somewhere between fear and sex.
Happiness was still on the other side of a glass door, but at least she could see it through the glass, like a prisoner being visited by a longed-for loved one.
For the first time in months I felt my body slacken. I had been carrying myself like a gun, cocked, alert, ready for trouble, fearing it.
Examine this statement: ‘A woman cannot be a poet.’ Dr Samuel Johnson (Englishman 1709-84 Occupation: Language Fixer and Big Mouth.) What then shall I give up? My poetry or my womanhood?
Every second the Universe divides into possibilities and most of those possibilities never happen. It is not a uni-verse — there is more than one reading. The story won’t stop, can’t stop, it goes on...
Don't regret your life, child, it will pass soon enough.
Can this be true, this simple obvious message, or am I like those shipwrecked mariners who seize an empty bottle and eagerly read out what isn't there? And yet you are there, here, sprung like a genie...
By betrayal, I mean promising to be on your side, then being on somebody else's.
Be not inhospitable to strangers, lest they be angels in disguise.
Asla yalan söylemeyin. İçinizde hiçbir şey kıpırdamadıysa bir şeyin sizi etkilediğini asla söylemeyin. Siz bir kitabı elinize alabilirsiniz ama bir kitap sizi odanın öbür ucuna fırlatabilir. Bir kitap...
And the world goes on regardless of joy or despair or one woman!s fortune or one man!s loss. And we can!t know our own lives beyond the details we can manage. And the things that change us forever hap...