And the thing about love, Wally said to Angel, is that you can’t force anyone. It’s natural to want someone you love to do what you want, or what you think would be good for them, but you have to let...
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...
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...
Always be suspicious of easy work, Dr. Wilbur Larch once said to Homer Wells.
All his life he would hold this moment as exemplary of what love was. It was not wanting anything more, nor was it expecting people to exceed what they had just accomplished; it was simply feeling so...
Ah, well... I started to say, and then stopped. So that was where he was going; I'd heard it before. Richard had told me that I'd not been standing in my mother's shoes in 1942, when I was born; he'd...
Again, Homer felt the nudge in his ribs, and Mr. Rose said, mildly, ‘You all so uneducated – Homer’s havin’ a little fun with you.’When the bottle of rum passed from man to man, Mr. Rose just passed i...
According to my mother, I was a fiction writer before I'd written any ficton, by wich she meant not only that I invented things, or made things up, but that I prefered this kind of fantasising or pure...
A man you like, you mean, Tabitha? my grandmother asked. I wouldn’t mention him if I didn’t like him, my mother said. I want you to meet him, she said to us all. You’ve dated him? my grandmother asked...
Руководящий принцип нашей семьи сводился к тому, что осознание неизбежности печального конца не должно мешать жить полнокровной жизнью. Это базировалось на уверенности в том, что других концов, кроме...
Return trips, to this day...are simply invitations to dull trances or leaden slumber,
I suddenly realized what small towns are. They are places where you grow up with the peculiar-you live next to the strange and the unlikely for so long that everything and everyone become commonplace.
It struck him as a brilliant accusation to make of anyone who was slightly (or hugely) different. It was the best rumor to start about anyone because it could never be proved or disproved.
You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.
You know, everybody dies. My parents died. Your father died. Everybody dies. I'm going to die too. So will you. The thing is, to have a life before we die. It can be a real adventure having a life
YOU LET ME DROWN! Owen said. YOU DIDN’T DO ANYTHING! YOU JUST WATCHED ME DROWN! I’M ALREADY DEAD! he told us. REMEMBER THAT: YOU LET ME DIE.
Y naturalmente, para ser justos, lo mejor de las ellenjamesianas había consistido en dar a conocer el pavor general que tan brutalmente amenazaba a mujeres y niñas. Para muchas ellenjamesianas, la imi...
Women know when men don’t desire them: ghosts and witches, deities and demons, angels of death—even virgins, even ordinary women. They always know; women can tell when you have stopped desiring them.
Without somehow destroying me in the process, how could God reveal himself in a way that would leave no room for doubt? If there was no room for doubt, there would be no room for me. —FREDERICK BUECHN...