He was not a monster, to her ... How easy to invent a humanity, for anyone at all.
He told me that everyone had a hidden door, which was the way into the heart, and that it was a point of honour with him to be able to find the handles to those doors. For the heart was both key and l...
He can’t shake the feeling that this place is some sort of pyramid scheme, and that those who fail to understand that will be left empty-handed. But there’s no obvious reason for this feeling of his....
Guess it’s the climate change, says Sam. That’s what people say, the way they used to say, We’ve angered God.
God, do I need a cigarette, says Moira. Me too, I say. I feel ridiculously happy.
God cannot be held to the narrowness of literal and materialistic interpretations, nor measured by Human measurements, for His days are eons, and a thousand ages of our time are like an evening to Him...
For the children with their greedy little mouths represent the future, which like time itself will devour all now alive.
Fool, he tells himself. She’s not here. She was never here. It was imagination and wishful thinking, nothing but that. Resign yourself. He can’t resign himself.
Falling in love... how could he have made such light of it? Sneered even. As if it was trivial for us, a frill, a whim. It was, on the contrary, heavy going. It was the central thing, the way you unde...
Faith is only a word, embroidered.
Every time the women appear, Snowman is astonished all over again. They're every known colour from the deepest black to whitest white, they're various heights, but each one of them is admirably propor...
But remember that forgiveness too is a power.
Books and characters in books, pictures and elements in pictures—they all have families and ancestors, just like people.
Beginnings are sudden, but also insidious. They creep up on you sideways, they keep to the shadows, they lurk unrecognized. Then, later, they spring.
As we know from the study of history, no new system can impose itself upon a previous one without incorporating many of the elements to be found in the latter, as witness the pagan elements in medieva...
Another friend of mine used to maintain that airplanes stayed up in the air only because people believed—against reason—that they could fly: without that collective delusion sustaining them, they woul...
And I said that Crozier did not need to call Fuck right now because we were not in trouble and did not need his help. And Toby said, That's right, he doesn't like to be summoned on trivial matters. An...
A return to traditional values. Waste not want not. I am not being wasted. Why do I want?
Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.
She's just jealous, people say, as if jealousy is something minor. But it's not, it's the worst, it's the worst feeling there is - incoherent and confused and shameful, and at the same time self-right...