The best of all possible cages.' Ben stepped back to regard the job with a sad smile. 'What more can one ask?
Mostly, I'd just like to look over the country around the gorge again, just to bring some of it clear in my mind again. I been away a long time.
Is it that? she asked in a soft voice, once more examining her hands, not being sure of that ‘someday’? Or is it not being sure of having that ‘somebody’?
I lay in bed the night before the fishing trip and thought it over, about my being deaf, about the years of not letting on I heard what was said, and I wonder if I can ever act any other way again. Bu...
He's what he is, that's it. Maybe that makes him strong enough, being what he is.
He's the sort of guy that gets a laugh out of people.
He couldn't seem to get his teeth into anything. Except books. The things in books was darn near more real to him than the things breathing and eating.
When a guy's getting screwed he's got a right to holler. And we've been damn well screwed.
To Vik Lovell who told me dragons did not exist, then led me to their lairs ...
More was revealed in a human face than a human being can bear face to face.
Little of God, then a little of ghosts, is that it, bub? as though our unfortunate argument were forgotten. Well . . . keep a tight hold on it.
مثل عالم كرتوني، حيث الشخةص مسطحة ومخططة بالأسود، تتراقص في قصة هزلية كان يمكن لها أن تكون مضحكة حقاً لولا أن شخوصها ليسوا من الكرتون بل هم بشر حقيقيون
This world . . . belongs to the strong, my friend! The ritual of our existence is based on the strong getting stronger by devouring the weak. We must face up to this. No more than right that it should...
That first day still came about as close to undoing me completely, both physically and mentally, as any day had in almost a week.
Poate ca omul, cu cat e mai nebun, cu atat poate deveni mai puternic.
One of the reasons for his drinking, Henry said, was John's mama used to make the whole family get down on their knees and pray like fury everytime John's daddy--Henry's first cousin, I believe--would...
Okay, stand outa the way. Sometimes when I go to exertin' myself I use up all the air nearby and grown men faint from suffocation.
Memory whispers someplace in that jumbled machinery.
Meg kell neked is érteni, hogy amint valaki a másiknak a segítségére siet, maga fedezetlen marad.
Look...Reality is greater than the sum of its parts, also a damn sight holier. And the lives of such stuff as dreams are made of may be rounded with a sleep but they are not tied neatly with a red bow...