Mentimos para convencer al mundo, y para convencernos a nosotros mismos, de que somos algo que no somos...
Life has kicked us in the teeth, Abby, and I am about to kick back. Hard.
It is the gentleman's job to match his pace and his step to the lady's. men do not have. All the power in the world, you see, despite what women often believe.
It is impossible to recapture innocence once it has been exposed for the illusion it is, she said.Illusion? He frowned. Why should innocence be more unreal, more untrue, than cynicism?I am not cynical...
I do not want to drain all your light, Percy, she said.Something sparked in his eyes.But there is never an end to light, Imogen, he told her, or to love. I'll fill you so full of light that you will g...
Have you noticed, she asked him, how standing still can sometimes be no different from moving backward? For the whole world moves on and leaves one behind.
Except that love - that mysterious, vast, all-encompassing power - could not possibly be contained in a single word.
But a mother-son relationship is not a coequal one, is it? He is lonely with only you just as you are lonely with only him.
And yet day and night meet fleetingly at twilight and dawn, he said, lowering his voice again and narrowing his eyes and moving his head a quarter of an inch closer to hers. And their merging sometime...
Was, licking
You must be a good girl. Yes, Uncle, she said. A pity, though, he said. His assets and mine combined, Cass. Ah, well, Mr. Westhaven will be a baron one day, though the present baron is said to be in...
Why say something, he asked her, if your words mean nothing?
What do you not have, Lord Hardford? she asked. For no one has everything, you know, or even nearly everything.
Tonight seems eons away, but there are these moments.
There is no such thing as time. There is only our reaction to the inexorable progress of life.
The ugliness at the heart of beauty. Is there always ugliness, do you suppose? Even when the object is very, very beautiful?
Since when had shabby men started to look impossibly attractive when immaculately tailored ones merely looked ... well, immaculately tailored? Though it was not shabby exactly, was it, but a certain...
One should love from a position of wholeness. One should have a firm and rich sense of self no matter what. For there is always pain—it cannot be avoided in this life, more’s the pity. But pain should...
Little people are often more fierce than their larger counterparts[...]
It was hard to leave. But it was impossible to stay. He was leaving from choice because he was young and energetic and adventurous and had long wanted to carve a life of his own.He was going to new po...