Lobsters are classified in the phylum Arthropoda, same as insects. They're bugs. And bugs are only lobsters that have learned to fly.
La observó con tal concentración que hasta dejó de existir
Just like ice, lives crack, too. Personalities. Identities. Jimmy Zizmo, crouching over the Packard's wheel has already changed past understanding.
It was still years before Desdemona, cutting cucumbers, would lean against the corner of the kitchen table and, without realizing it, would lean in a little harder, and after that would find herself t...
It was convenient to call them snipers, because if they weren’t snipers, then what were they? The governor didn’t say it; the newspapers didn’t say it; the history books still do not say it, but I, wh...
It had to do with Leonard. With how she felt about him and how she couldn't tell anyone. With how much she liked him and how little she knew about him. With how desperately she wanted to see him and h...
Inertes exceto quando removidos, batiam as asas com fúria entre nossos dedos e então voavam para se agarrar novamente a qualquer coisa, inertes outra vez
I'm not sure, with a grandmother like mine, if you can ever become a true American in the sense of believing that life is about the pursuit of happiness.
I'd never been this close to the Obscure Object before. It was hard on my organism. My nervous system launched into Flight of the Bumblebee. The violins were sawing away in my spine. The timpani were...
I was already well acquainted with the splendors of her mouth. Smoking is good for that. You get a full display of the puckering, and the sucking. The tongue often makes an appearance, licking from th...
I just want to make scary movies, Jerome replied. With occasional nudity.
I hadn't gotten old enough yet to realize that living sends a person not into the future but back into the past, to childhood and before birth, finally, to commune with the dead.
I hadn't gotten old enough yet to realize that living sends a person not into the future but back into the past, to childhood and before birth, finally, to commune with the dead. You get older, you pu...
Hirtelen az jutott az eszembe, hány és hány különös sorsot rejt magában a világ: akik odabent élnek a házakban, azoknak ezerféle gondolat nyüzsög a fejében, pénzügyek, szerelmi gondok, iskolai problém...
He wanted women to love him, all women, beginning with his mother and going on from there. Therefore, whenever any woman got mad at him, he felt maternal disapproval crashing down upon his shoulders,...
Ez idő tájt szokásban volt az Amerikába indulók között, hogy színes fonalgombolyagokat vittek magukkal a fedélzetre, egyik végüket kidobták a partra, hogy a búcsúzkodó rokonok megragadhassák. Megszóla...
Every morning a great wall of fog descends upon the city of San Francisco. It begins far out at sea. It forms over the Farallons, covering the sea lions on their rocks, and then it sweeps onto Ocean B...
Emerson said, I am more of a Quaker than anything else. I believe in the still, small voice.
Dukakis. A name with more than two vowels in it running for President! The last time that had happened was Eisenhower (who looked good on a tank). Generally speaking, Americans like their presidents t...
Downstairs, entertaining company, Desdemona heard her son’s clarinet and, as if orchestrating a harmony, let out a long sigh. For the last forty-five minutes Gus and Georgia Vasilakis and their daught...