But they had a money value: they represented a cash profit to others. They must have sensed that--sensed that they were worth something.
But the waves kept moving, with the white wake of the ship traced in them for an instant, and then smoothed over by the water. And it was as if my own footsteps were being erased behind me, the footst...
But reality has too much darkness in it. Too many crows
But maybe he was destructive by nature since he messed up every girl he touched
But it's love that does us in.
But despite everything, we didn't do badly by one another, we did as well as most. I wish she were here, so I could tell her I finally know this.
But also I’m hungry. This is monstrous, but nevertheless it’s true. Death makes me hungry. Maybe it’s because I’ve been emptied; or maybe it’s the body’s way of seeing to it that I remain alive, conti...
But I was the daughter of a Naiad. Behave like water, I told myself. Don’t try to oppose them. When they try to grasp you, slip through their fingers. Flow around them.
Blessed be those that mourn, for they shall be comforted.Nobody said when.
Betty's now have a patio garden, where the tourists can sit in the sun and fry to a crisp; it's in the back, that little square of cracked cement where they used to keep the garbage cans. They offer t...
Axiom: you are a sea. Your eye-lids curve over chaosMy handswhere they touch you, createsmall inhabited islandssoon you will be
At first the solution was to build more prisons and cram more people into them, but that soon became prohibitively expensive. (Here Ed flicks through a few more slides.) Not only that, it resulted in...
As a species we’re doomed by hope, then?
Another of those things that must be true because everyone else agrees they are, although they don’t seem so to me.
And then I thought: 'It's for a warning,' she continues. You may think a bed is a peaceful thing, sir. For you it may mean rest, and comfort, and a good night's sleep. But it isn't so for everyone. Th...
And the vampires. You used to know where you stood with them – smelly, evil, undead – but now there are virtuous vampires and disreputable vampires, and sexy vampires and glittery vampires, and none o...
All stories are about wolves. All worth repeating, that is. Anything else is sentimental drivel. All of them? Sure, he says. Think about it. There’s escaping from the wolves, fighting the wolves, capt...
A rebuke, a palpable rebuke! How dare she? He was already middle-aged when she was born! He could have been her father! He could have been her child molester!
A rat in a maze is free to go anywhere, as long as it stays inside the maze.
A prison does not only lock its inmates inside, it keeps all others out. Her strongest prison is of her own construction.