When there is an invisible elephant in the room, one is from time to time bound to trip over a trunk.
We sat around our own table, an island of sad reflection in an ocean of merry din.
We call them feelings because we feel them.
Svatko misli o tom kako promijeniti svijet, ali nitko ne misli kako promijeniti sebe.
Sometimes you best avoid talking by being quiet, but sometimes you best avoid talking by talking.
So this is what I said to Mom; this is what I meant to say - That there was something inside Fern I didn't know. That I didn't know her in the way I'd always thought I did.
It was the marriage that was important; Jane Austen rarely even bothered to write about the wedding.
I still haven't found the place where I can be my true self. But maybe you never get to be your true self, either.
I DIDN’T KNOW what she was thinking or feeling. Her body had become unfamiliar to me. And yet, at the very same time, I recognized everything about her. My sister, Fern. In the whole wide world, my on...
Here is my objection to submarines and space travel: not enough windows. What difference does it make if you're in outer space or underwater, or wherever, if you can't feel, or hear, or see or smell i...
What we have instead are false memories aroused later and more pertinent to this later perspective than to the original events. Sometimes in matters of great emotion, one representation, retaining all...
Ipecac syrup of happiness. There Lowell would be. With Harlow.
When a portent repeats itself three times, like something out of Julius Caesar, even Caliban, a couple of plays over, is bound to notice.
When I run the world, librarians will be exempt from tragedy. Even their smaller sorrows will last only for as long as you can take out a book.
We need a sort of reverse mirror test. Some way to identify those species smart enough to see themselves when they look at someone else. Bonus points for how far out the chain you can go. Double bonus...
We all have a sense of level. It may not be based on class exactly anymore, but we still have a sense of what we're entitled to. People pick partners who are nearly their equal in looks. The pretty ma...
The storm which blew me out of my past eased off. —FRANZ KAFKA, A Report for an Academy
The next day I lay out on the grass in our backyard and I looked straight into the sun, the way my mother had told me never to do because it would damage my eyes. I thought that I would grow up to be...
The monkey girl had made another unscheduled appearance, and it had landed her in jail again. When would she learn to behave with restraint and decorum?
Maybe friendship was not as big a deal as I’d thought and I actually had lots of friends.