Believe me,' [...] 'I would know about it. That's the difference between me and your girlfriend. I am the jealous type. I am the Spanish Inquisition when it comes to being fucked around on. No quarter...
Although he, like all people, secretely enjoyed the smell of his own farts, the smell of his shit was somethig else. It was so bad as to seem evil in a moral way.
A candle is like a small sun, but the sun is like a large candle; examined closely, language turns out to operate through the lateral associations of metaphor, rather than through the vertical identif...
В първите шумове на започване на работа сутрин се крие опасна тъга, сякаш тишината я боли, задето е била обезпокоена. Първият миг от работния ден напомня за всички останали мигове, от които се състои...
She was so much a personality and so little anything else that even staring straight at her he had no idea what she really looked like.
There were a thousand things she wanted from life, and since few were available at home [...], she had forcibly channeled all her wanting into the numbered days, the mayfly lifetime, that the luxury c...
Then again, there had always been something not quite right about the Berglunds.
The reason this system can’t be overthrown in this country, Walter said, is all about freedom. The reason the free market in Europe is tempered by socialism is that they’re not so hung up on personal...
The one thing everyone in the Republic had plenty of was time. Whatever you didn’t do today really could be put off until tomorrow.
The mark of a legitimate revolution - the scientific, for example - was that it didn't brag about its revolutionariness but simply occurred.
The human species was given dominion over the earth and took the opportunity to exterminate other species and warm the atmosphere and generally ruin things in its own image, but it paid this price for...
That his comments actually pertained to her questions—that in spite of the infinity in his eyes he was participating in a finite conversation—made up for the sourness in his face.
Stevia does something funny to the chemistry of my mouth. There’s no fooling a taste bud, in my experience.
Sounded to me like he had a pretty good idea what he was saying, Van replied, with surprisingly little anger. It's a pity he had to overintellectualize like that. He did such good work, and then he ha...
So many . A plague of literary .
Si uno dedica su existencia a gustar, y si adopta la imagen atractiva necesaria para ello, sea la que sea, se suele creer que uno ha desistido de ser querido por ser quien es en realidad. Y si uno con...
She told herself a story about a daughter in a family so hungry for a daughter that it would have eaten her alive if she hadn't run away.
Robin turned and looked straight into her. What's life for?I don't know.I don't either. But I don't think it's about winning.
Reporting was imitation life, imitation expertise, imitation worldliness, imitation intimacy; mastering a subject only to forget it, befriending people only to drop them.
Now Connie seemed to be suggesting that what made people complain about stupidity was their own stupidity.