It was impossible to instruct on the subject of beauty, of course. It simply was. You were either moved by it or you weren’t.
It means acceptance. Whatever happens to you, embrace it, the good and the bad equally. Death is just one more thing to be embraced, I suppose.
In the endgame a pawn can change into a queen.
If there was one thing she found more tedious than thinking about politics it was talking about politics.
If an author was a god, then he was a very poor second-rate one, scrabbling around in the foothills of Olympus.
If Richard had lived, perhaps... but one cannot look backwards, only forwards. What has passed has passed for ever. What is it Heraclitus says? One Cannot step in the same river twice?' ... 'More or l...
I was on the verge of something numinous and profound and in one more second the universe was going to crack open and arcana would rain down on my head like grace and all the cosmic mysteries were goi...
I wanted her for what she was, but when I got her I wanted her to change.
He didn’t make plans himself any more. There was now and it was followed by another now. If you were lucky.
He caught the look on her face, a mixture of distaste and confusion which eventually resolved into something more cryptic. Women usually needed to be acquainted with him a little longer before he saw...
Being kind modified the extraordinary, alarming otherness of him, which was threefold—large, male and American.
All that is necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good women to do nothing. The
A van drew up in the centre of St. Helen’s Square and disgorged several people dressed as zombies. The zombies proceeded to chase the men who were dressed as condoms. The condom men didn’t seem very s...
An eye for an eye, Mac said at the squadron reunion. Until everyone was blind, Teddy wondered?)
‘The mistake,’ Sylvie said, ‘is thinking that love equates with happiness.’)
I'm a lapsed Quaker. I don't go to meetings any more. But I'm very drawn to Catholicism - all that glitter. I'd love to be a Catholic. I think it would be fantastic - faith, forgiveness, absolution, e...
Words are the only things that can construct a world that makes sense.
The hospital. He was the youthful partner of an older doctor
That one way or another the Germans were tracking them from the
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