Olyannak akarta érezni a világot, mint ahol csak most kezdődik az élet – holott valójában épp véget érni készült.
Nikad nismo shvatili zašto je curama tako bitno da budu zrele, ili zašto osjećaju potrebu da jedna drugoj dijele komplimente, no kad bismo katkad naglas pročitali dugi odlomak dnevnika, morali smo sus...
My mind was curiously blank. It was the blankness of obedience. With the unerring instinct of children, I had surmised what my parents wanted from me. They wanted me to stay the way I was. [434]
Mas talvez as Pulseiras de Pingentes soubessem mais da vida do que eu. Desde muito cedo compreendiam que o mundo dava pouco valor aos livros, e por isso não gastavam seu tempo com eles. Ao passo que e...
Leonard’s being up early constituted a new change in his sleeping patterns, was part of the former change in his sleeping patterns, or indicated a beneficial development. She didn’t know if his perfec...
Just when she’d got her head on straight, her body started falling apart.
It was something every child knew how to do, maintain a direct and full connection with the world. Somehow you forgot about it as you grew up, and had to learn it again.
In between calls, she lay on her side, thinking about calling.
I'm quickly approaching the moment of discovery: of myself by myself, which was something I knew all along and yet didn't know; and the discovery by poor half-blind Dr. Philobosian of what he'd failed...
I went into the desert to forget about you. But the sand was the color of your hair. The desert sky was the color of your eyes. There was nowhere I could go that wouldn't be you.
I mean, in the end it wasn't up to me. The big things never are. Birth, I mean, and death. And love. And what love bequeaths to use before we're born.
I climbed the stairs and got back into bed, pulling a pillow over my face to block out the summer light. But there was no hiding from reality that morning.
Even the air seemed on fire, subtly aflame with energy as it does when you are young, when the synapses are firing wildly and death is far away.
Early June, Providence, Rhode Island, the sun up for almost two hours already, lighting up the pale bay and the smokestacks of the Narragansett Electric factory, rising like the sun on the Brown Unive...
Dust balls lined the steps. A half-eaten sandwich sat atop the landing where someone had felt too sad to finish it.
Dr. Luce introduced the concept of periphescence. The word itself means nothing; Luce made it up to avoid any etymological associations. The state of periphescence, however, is well known. It denotes...
Dezdemónának fogalma sem volt róla, mi történik vele. Ő még nem úgy képzelte el saját benső énjét, mint egy hatalmas komputert, ahol minden egyesek és nullák végtelen láncolatából és esetleg egy-egy ó...
Desdemona, mourning her parents, was still imprisoned by the past. And so she stood on the mountain, looking down at the emancipated city, and felt cheated by her ability to feel happy by everybody el...
Dear Mom and Dad,I know you’re only trying to do what’s best for me, but I don’t think anyone knows for sure what’s best. I love you and don’t want to be a problem, so I’ve decided to go away. I know...
Chucking her under her chin, he said, What are you doing here, honey? You're not even old enough to know how bad life gets.And it was then Cecilia gave orally what was to be her only form of suicide n...