Every child should have love, every person should have it. She herself would rather have had her mother's love - the love she still continued to believe in, the love that had followed her through the...
Change, we were sure, was for the better always. We were revisionists; what we revised was ourselves.
But what is a memorial, when you come right down to it, but a commemoration of wounds endured? Endured, and resented. Without memory, there can be no revenge.
All this will happen because people have neglected the basic lessons of Science, they have gone in for politics and religion and wars instead, and sought out passionate excuses for killing one another...
A man is just a woman's strategy for making other women. Not that your father wasn't a nice guy and all, but... there's something missing in them, even the nice ones. It's like they're permanently abs...
Is a futile word. It's about what didn't happen. It belongs in a parallel universe. It belongs in another dimension of space.
A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it but there's less of you.
Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will shortly be no older ones. Literacy will be dead, and democracy -...
Here the children have a custom. After the celebration of evil they take those vacant heads that shone once with such anguish and glee and throw them over the bridge, watching the smash, orange, as th...
I read for pleasure and that is the moment I learn the most.
I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.
It's doors I'm afraid of because I can't see through them, its the door opening by itself in the wind I'm afraid of.
Expectation isn't the same as desire
[...] he often talked to himself and he was the best conversationalist he knew; [...]
Why is it always such a surprise? thinks Toby. The moon. Even though we know it's coming. Every time we see it, it makes us pause, and hush.
This thing I'm doing can hardly be called living. Instead I'm lying dormant, like a bacterium in a glacier. Getting time over with. That's all.
That was when they suspended the Constitution. They said it would be temporary. There wasn't even any rioting in the streets. People stayed home at night, watching television, looking for some directi...
In ten years, you'll be on a stamp /where anyone at all can lick you.
If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next—if you knew in advance the consequences of your own actions—you'd be doomed. You'd be ruined as God. You'd be...
Also she went in for culture, which gave her a certain moral authority. It wouldn't now; but people believed, then, that culture could make you better - a better person. They believed it could uplift...