In life, you have to take lots of decisions and if you don't take decisions you would never do anything because you would spend all your time choosing between things you could do.
Come devono essere tristi, quei figli unici. Crescere in una casa piena di adulti, sempre in minoranza, sempre sconfitti, nemmeno un po' di quella stupidità sfrenata, niente scherzi da poter ripetere...
Because time is not like space. And when you put something down somewhere, like a protractor or a biscuit, you can have a map in your head to tell you where you have left it, but even if you don't hav...
And because there is something they can’t see people think it has to be special, because people always think there is something special about what they can’t see, like the dark side of the moon, or th...
Why I like timetables, because they make sure I don't get lost in time.
You could ask for hugs if you were feeling sad or you'd hurt yourself, but when it happened spontaneously it made you feel warm inside.
Then he snored and I jumped and I could hear the blood in my ears and my heart going really fast and a pain like someone had blown up a really big balloon inside my chest. I wondered if I was going to...
The secret of contentment lay in ignoring many things completely.
Some people think the Milky Way is a long line of stars, but it isn't. Our galaxy is a huge disk of stars millions of light-years across, and the solar system is somewhere near the outside edge of the...
So often these days she seemed to hover between worlds, none of them wholly real.
Siobhan dice che se si solleva un sopracciglio, questo gesto può significare molte cose differenti. Può voler dire: Voglio fare sesso con te, ma può anche essere inteso come: Hai appena detto una cosa...
Reading is primarily a symptom. Of a healthy imagination, of our interest in this and other worlds, of our ability to be still and quiet, of our ability to dream during daylight.
Prime numbers are useful for writing codes and in America they are classed as Military Material and if you find one over 100 digits you have to tell the CIA and they buy it off you for $10,000. But it...
People disappear, leaving only bodies that flicker on and off in beds in time with the steady toggle of the dark.
Mrs. Forbes said that hating yellow and borwn is just being silly. And Siobhan said that she shouldn't say things like that and everyone has favorite colors. And Siobhan was right. But Mrs. Forbes was...
Mother used to say it meant Christopher was a nice name because it was a story about being kind and helpful, but I do not want my name to mean a story about being kind and helpful. I want my name to m...
Life is difficult, you know. It's bloody hard telling the truth all the time. Sometimes it's impossible.
It wasn't about believing this or that, it wasn't even about good and evil and right and wrong, it was about finding the strength to bear the discomfort that came with being in the world.
I find people confusing.This is for two main reasons.The first main reason is that people do a lot of talking without using any words. Siobhan says that if you raise one eyebrow it can mean lots of di...
Everything seemed suspended, in some kind of balance. Obviously someone would come along and fuck it up, because that's what other people did.