De alguna manera -había argumentado Garp- la vida es demasiado. La vida es un folletín melodramático no apto para menores, John
DREAMS EDIT THEMSELVES; DREAMS are ruthless with details. Common sense does not dictate what remains, or is not included, in a dream. A two-minute dream can feel like forever.
Ciocia Marta (....) w obronie demokracji potrafiła stać się tyranem.
But who can distinguish between falling in love and imagining falling in love? Even genuinely falling in love is an act of the imagination.
But the penultimate paragraph of the novel is naturally the passage I wrote first. When we held Owen Meany above our heads, when we passed him back and forth—so effortlessly—we believed that Owen weig...
But she drew the line at television. It took no effort to watch—it was infinitely more beneficial to the soul, and to the intelligence, to read or to listen—and what she imagined there was to watch on...
But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead …’ Pastor Merrill assured us. ‘For as by a man came death, by a man has come also the resurrection of the dead,’ my father said.
But don’t you see how your … opinions can be disturbing? It’s very American—to have opinions as … strong as your opinions. It’s very Canadian to distrust strong opinions. I’m a Canadian, I said. I’ve
But Vienna was in its death phase; it lay still and let me look at it, and think about it, and look again. In a living city, I could never have noticed so much. Living cities don't hold still.
But I felt certain that if the world would stop indulging wars and famines and other perils, it would be possible for human beings to embarrass each other to death. Our self-destruction might take a l...
But Americans are not great historians, and so, for years—educated by my neighbor—I thought that sagamore was an Indian word for lake.
At that moment, everyone walks on the sky. Maybe all great decisions are made without a net, The Wonder herself had told him. There comes a time, in every life, when you must let go.
As for the river, it just kept moving,as river do--as rivers do. Under the logs, the body of the young Canadian moved with the river, which jostled him to and fro--to and fro. If, at this moment in ti...
As a fourteen-year-old, he’d not been old enough to have sympathy for her—for either the child or the adult that she was.
Anyone can be sentimental about the nativity; any fool can feel like a Christian at Christmas. But Easter is the main event; if you don’t believe in the resurrection, you’re not a believer.If you don’...
And when you love a book, commit one glorious sentence of it-perhaps your favorite sentence-to memory. That way you won't forget the language of the story that moved you to tears.
And how do I say 'I miss you'? he wondered - when I don't mean 'I want to come back!'?
Among these contemptuous women, poor Germaine had the disadvantage of being young--and almost pretty, in a shy, mousy way. She possessed the nonspecific clumsiness of someone who makes such a constant...
Americans are suckers for an English accent.
Amazing! said Mr. McSwiney. You've got a permanently fixed larynx, he told Owen. I've rarely seen such a thing, he said. Your voice box is never in repose - your Adam's apple sits up there in the posi...