You can think of me thinking of you, because that’s what I’ll be doing whenever you think of me.
When a smoker says he wants to quit but can’t, what he’s really saying is, I want to quit but I want even more not to suffer the agony of withdrawal. To argue otherwise is to jettison any lingering no...
What happened in the virtual world, where beauty existed for the purpose of being hated and besmirched, was more compelling than what happened in the real world, where beauty seemed to have no purpose...
Walter non aveva mai capito come vivere, ma adesso lo capiva meno che mai
Use well thy freedom.
Un inconvenient del correu electrònic és que només el pots esborrar una vegada: no pots arrugar-lo, rebotre'l contra el terra, trepitjar-lo, fer-ne mil bocins i cremar-lo. Hi podia haver alguna cosa m...
This wasn't the person he'd thought he was, or would have chosen to be if he'd been free to choose, but there was something comforting and liberating about being an actual definite someone, rather tha...
There’s hardly anybody who doesn’t hate somebody now, and nobody at all whom somebody doesn’t hate.
There was no arguing with blood.
The truth is that nothing between Patty and Richard was ever going to last, because they couldn't help being disappointments to each other, because neither was as lovable to the other as Walter was to...
The tone of the new ones, in their TED Talks, in PowerPointed product launches, in testimony to parliaments and congresses, in utopianly titled books, was a smarmy syrup of convenient conviction and p...
The soul,' he said to Pip, 'is a chemical sensation. What you see lying on this sofa is a glorified . Every enzyme has its special job to do. It spends its life looking for the specific molecule it's...
The love that was a granite impediment at the center of her life was also an unshakable foundation;
The guiding principle of Martin’s personality, the sum of his interior existence, was the desire to be left alone. If all those years he’d sought attention, even novelty, and if he still relished them...
The aim of the Internet and its associated technologies was to liberate humanity from the tasks—making things, learning things, remembering things—that had previously given meaning to life and thus ha...
The American middle-class appetite for illegal drugs provided the capital to build some of the most sophisticated and effective companies on earth.
So, what, you got cigarette burns, too? Gitanes said. Chip showed his palm, It's nothing. Self-inflicted. You pathetic American.Different kind of prison Chip said.
So many . A plague of literary .
Sleep was the ideally work-compatible girl he ought to have married in the first place. Perfectly submissive, infinitely forgiving, and so respectable you could take her to church.
She was one of the few stay-at-home moms in Ramsey Hill and was famously averse to speaking well of herself or ill of anybody else. She said that she expected to be beheaded someday by one of the wind...