A silence fell. Frogs in the night were calling, calling, calling.
... It happened very fast. And now that he's dead he can't remember pain. It's as if he'd never existed.'He wanted her to believe this, but he wasn't sure he believed it himself. If time was infinite,...
Но дори и най-баналните домакински задължения като работа в градината, чистене или пазаруване й се струваха по-приятни и по-спешни от въргалянето в кревата и след като в главата ти се загнезди мисълта...
It seemed as if the Internet was governed more by fear: the fear of unpopularity and uncoolness, the fear of missing out, the fear of being flamed or forgotten.
Although in truth her passivity was calculated, because she knew passivity inflamed him. He had her, and to some extent she wanted to be had, like an animal: in a mute mutual privacy of violence.
Wasn’t asking for a recipe supposed to be good coin of the feminine realm?
There's a hazardous sadness to the first sounds of someone else's work in the morning; it's as if stillness experiences pain in being broken.
There was something almost tasty and almost sexy in letting the annoying boy be punished by her husband. In standing blamelessly aside while the boy suffered for having hurt her.What you discovered ab...
The thing about games is that you don't want to look too closely at why you're playing them. A great yawning emptiness underlies them, a close relative of the nothingness that lies beneath the surface...
The note of self-righteousness in his voice set fire to a larger and more diffuse pool of the gas, a combustible political substance that had seeped into her from her mother and then from certain coll...
The mark of a legitimate revolution—the scientific, for example—was that it didn’t brag about its revolutionariness but simply occurred. Only the weak and fearful, the illegitimate, had to brag.
The horror of underage smoking veils a horror of teen and preteen sexuality, and one of the biggest pleasant empty dreams being pushed these days by Madison Avenue is that a child is innocent until hi...
That summer when I was feeling very much like Juliet holding the potion, the therapist would tell me, Just know that those thoughts aren’t you. That’s the OCD, it’s not you. It was a kind gesture—she...
She was like a bank too big in her mother’s economy to fail,
Serious fans always need to feel uniquely connected to the object of their fandom; they jealously guard those points of connection, however tiny or imaginary, that justify the feeling of uniqueness.
Nothing got inside the head without becoming pictures.
My apartment rightfully belongs to the people of Lithuania!
La differenza è che gli uccelli uccidono solo perché devono mangiare. Non lo fanno con rabbia, non lo fanno senza motivo. Non è una cosa nevrotica. Per me è questo che rende la natura un luogo pacific...
L'integrità è un valore neutro. Anche le iene hanno una loro integrità. Sono iene allo stato puro.
It's healthy to say uncle when your bone's about to break.