What happens when you let go, when your strength leaves you and you sink into darkness, when there’s nothing that you or anyone else can do, no matter how desperate you are, no matter how you try? Per...
An old man with a cane may discover that his many years have added nothing to his innocence but proof and explanation, and that, as much as he may have learned in his long life, he cannot see as far a...
Zrobimy to, co zawsze robię w takich sytuacjach, co robiłem już sto razy, co automatycznie robi każdy, kto naprawdę zna góry. – To znaczy? – Katapultę.
We ate simply, we were healthy, and we were uninterested in those things that should be called possessions not because they are possessed but because they possess. Those ten years were the happiest of...
To be in New York on a beautiful day is to feel razor close to being in love.
Though he was scared even to look up, much less down, he raised his hands and caught the side of the gondola. With a stream of curse words known principally to the fourth class of the Accademia San Pi...
The greatest blizzards start with the finest snow.
Because I don’t need oxygen. I’ve already come to all my conclusions. I’m just slowly gliding down. Someday I’ll be as light as a feather.
Anticipation is the heart of wisdom. If you are going to cross a desert, you anticipate that you will be thirsty, and you take water.
And if you were a spirit, and time did not bind you, and patience and love were all you knew, then there you would wait for someone to return, and the story to unfold.
And he was seldom out of sight of the new bridges, which had married beautiful womanly Brooklyn to her rich uncle, Manhattan; had put the city’s hand out to the country; and were the end of the past b...
This marvelous graceful thing, this joy of physics, this perfect balance between rebellion and obedience, is God's own signature on earth.
Young Bindo Altovini, looking out from time, made a perfect coalition with the mountains, the sky, and the tall redheaded woman who had bent over just slightly to examine a raging battle that was long...
What do they mean to you? he asked, leaning back into the portable thicket of his gray vested suit. Beverly took back her pages and studied them. After a while, she looked up. They mean to me that the...
The smell of hot bread came from underneath the tent walls, and Perseus said that the ovens had just been opened. You haven't eaten in three days. You'd better strengthen yourself. How can I eat, Ales...
She died on a windy gray day in March when the sky was full of darting crows and the world lay prostrate and defeated after winter. Peter Lake was at her side and it ruined him forever. It broke him a...
Its funny, as soon as you lose faith, you have children, and life reawakens.
He was able to find the intensity and beauty that he wanted, in the plung itself. Physical forces in a complicated coalition of gravity, acceleration, and temperature were powerful and intense enough...