My own view of myself was that I was small and innocuous, a marshmallow compared to the others. I was a poor shot with a 22, for instance, and not very good with an ax. It took me a long time to figur...
Mushrooms were the roses in the garden of that unseen world, because
Murderess is a strong word to have attached to you. It has a smell to it, that word - musky and oppressive, like dead flowers in a vase. Sometimes at night I whisper it over to myself: . It rustles, l...
Men can imagine their own deaths, they can see them coming, and the mere though of impending death acts like an aphrodisiac. A dog or rabbit doesn't behave like that. Take birds -- in a lean season th...
Maybe all women should be robots, he thinks with a tinge of acid: the flesh-and-blood ones are out of control.
Live in the present, make the most of it, it's all you've got.
Karen wasn't hard, she was soft, too soft. A soft touch. Her hair was soft, her smile was soft, her voice was soft. She was so soft there was no resistance. Hard things sank into her, they went right...
I’ve been prepared for almost anything; except absence, except silence.
It’s wonderful to hear his voice, even if she can’t depend on having any sort of a conversation with him. His interventions tend to be one-sided: if she answers him, he doesn’t often answer back. But...
It’s always an advantage to have something to do with your hands. That way, if someone makes an inappropriate remark, you can pretend you haven’t heard it. Then you don’t have to answer.
It's evening, one of those gray water-color washes, like liquid dust.
It's Paradise, but we can't get out of it. And anything you can't get out of is Hell.
It took me a long time to figure out that the youngest in a family of dragons is still a dragon from the point of view of those who find dragons alarming.
It has thrown off its disguise as a meal and has revealed itself to me for what it is, a large dead bird. I'm eating a wing. It's the wing of a tame turkey, the stupidest bird in the world, so stupid...
It has taken so little time to change our minds, about things like this. Then
In the moment just before giving, I am loved.
If you have a need and they find it out, they will use it against you. The best way is to stop from wanting anything.
If he wants to be an asshole, it's a free country. Millions before him have made the same life choice.
I've got nothing against telepathy, said Jane; but the telephone is so much more dependable.
I'm working on my own life story. I don't mean I'm putting it together; no, I'm taking it apart.