Free will is making a comeback. Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind.
We were reckless with the implications
Bármerre menekültem is, mindenütt téged láttalak magam előtt.
We know now that most birth deformities result from the consanguinity of the parents.From the what? asked Desdemona.From families intermarrying.
Though some of us saw Lux as a force of nature, impervious to chill, an ice goddess generated by the season itself, the majority knew she was only a girl in danger, or in pursuit, of catching her deat...
This is my country,' Lefty said, and to prove it, he did a very American thing: he reached under the counter and produced a pistol.
The magisterial presence of all those potentially readable words stopped her in her tracks.
The essential matrimonial facts: that to be happy you have to find variety in repetition; that to go forward you have to come back to where you begin.
That was the deal basically: catatonia without; frenzy within
My grandfather's short employ at the Ford Motor Company marked the only time any Stephanides has ever worked in the automotive industry. Instead of cars, we could become manufacturers of hamburger pla...
It’s a kind of fugue state, anyway, early sex.
It didn't matter in the end how old they had been, or that they were girls, but only that we had loved them, and that they hadn't heard us calling, still do not hear us, up here in the tree house, wit...
In the first few days after the funeral, our interest in the Lisbon girls only increased. Added to their loveliness was a new mysterious suffering, perfectly silent, visible in the blue puffiness bene...
If this story is written only for myself, then so be it. But it doesn't feel that way. I feel you out there, reader. This is the only kind of intimacy I'm comfortable with. Just the two of us, here in...
I was beginning to understand something about normality. Normality wasn't normal. It couldn't be. If normality were normal, everybody could leave it alone. They could sit back and let normality manife...
I don't want to ruin your life, Leonard said in a gentler tone.You're not ruining it.The drugs just slow the process down. But the end's inevitable. The question is, how to turn this thing off? He jab...
He was filled with embarrassment: embarrassment for the human race, its preoccupation with money, it love of swindle.
English was what people who didn’t know what to major in majored in.
Whenever we got a glimpse, their faces looked indecently revealed, as though we were used to seeing women in veils.
We stood silent. After a moment I said, Real Geniuses never think they're geniuses.Who says?Me.Because why?Because genius is nine-tenths perspiration. Haven't you ever heard that? As soon as you you'...