I can see there might be a positive side to this wilful averting of the eye: ignoring the bad things makes it easier for you to carry on. But ignoring the bad things makes you end up believing that ba...
Early in life, the world divides crudely into those who have had sex and those who haven't. Later, into those who have known love, and those who haven't. Later still - at least, if we are lucky (or, o...
Cooking is the transformation of uncertainty (the recipe) into certainty (the dish) via fuss.
But that was the nature of relationships: there always seemed to be an imbalance of one sort of another. And it was fine to plan an emotional strategy, but another thing when the ground opened up in f...
Because just as all political and historical change sooner or later disappoints, so does adulthood. So does life. Sometimes I think the purpose of life is to reconcile us to its eventual loss by weari...
And then there is the question, on which so much depends, of how we react to the damage: whether we admit it or repress it, and how this affects our dealings with others. Some admit the damage, and tr...
And no, it wasn't shame I now felt, or guilt, but something rarer in my life and stronger than both: remorse. A feeling which is more complicated, curdled, and primeval. Whose chief characteristic is...
An English silence—one in which all the unspoken words are perfectly understood by both parties—prevailed.
An English silence—one in which all the unspoken words are perfectly understood by both parties—prevailed. I got into my bed and wept. The matter was never referred to again.
After a number of events, what is there left but repetition and diminishment? Who wants to go on living? The eccentric, the religious, the artistic (sometimes); those with a false sense of their own w...
A pier is a disappointed bridge; yet stare at it for long enough and you can dream it to the other side of the Channel.
Y lo mismo ocurre con nuestra vida: tan clara,tan segura, hasta que por una razón u otra —el globo se mueve, la nube se dispersa, elsol cambia de ángulo— la imagen se pierde para siempre, se torna acc...
He couldn't believe how falling love with Martha made things simpler. No, that wasn't the right word, unless 'simpler' also included the sense of richer, denser, more complicated, with focus and echo....
Может это предзнаменование? Кто знает? В le bon vieux temps , когда мы весело катались по прошлогоднему снегу, предзнаменование не расставалось с прилагательным и было зловещим. Падающая звезда, проче...
Σ'αγαπώ. Πρώτα πρώτα, καλά θα κάναμε να φυλάξουμε αυτή τη φράση σ'ένα ψηλό ράφι, σ'ένα τετράγωνο κουτί, πίσω από ένα τζάμι που πρέπει να σπάσουμε με τον αγκώνα μας, στην τράπεζα. Δεν πρέπει να την αφή...
Επειδή δεν μπορείτε να τα βγάλετε πέρα χωρίς το όνειρο.
She knew me better than anyone else in the world. And still wanted to have lunch with me. And let me go on and on about myself.
Our attitudes and opinions change, we develop new habits and eccentricities; but that's something different, more like decoration. Perhaps character resembles intelligence, except that character peaks...
It may seem bad, Geoffrey, but you’ll come out of it. I’m not taking your grief lightly; it’s just that I’ve seen enough of life to know that you’ll come out of it.’ The words you’ve said yourself whi...
I think it was the Earthrise that really kind of got everybody in the solar plexus … We were looking back at our planet, the place where we evolved. Our Earth was quite colorful, pretty and delicate c...