God save us from people who think they're smarter than they actually are.
Esto, piensa Virginia, es el autentico logro; lo que sobrevivirá después de que se haya marchitado el oropel de los experimentos narrativos
Barrett strokes one of the chair's slick, bile-green arms. You can get attached to just about anything, can't you? he says.
Умершие — трудная тема. Пожалуй, самое примечательное в них — неизменность их статуса. Они будут мертвы в том же самом смысле и через тысячу лет. Я все еще привыкал к этому в связи с моим собственным...
Мы живем свою жизнь, делаем то, что делаем, а потом спим — все довольно просто на самом деле. Одни прыгают из окна, или топятся, или принимают снотворное; другие — такое бывает несколько чаще — гибнут...
Многие годы, на самом деле большую часть своей сознательной жизни, я осторожно скользила над подземными водами скуки и отчаянья, от которых меня отделял лишь тонкий слой воображения. Остановись я слиш...
Кресло Ричарда совершенно безумно, вернее, это кресло человека, который не то чтобы сошел с ума в клиническом смысле, но позволил вещам зайти так далеко, проделал такой путь в сторону отказа от общепр...
А знаешь, если казаться не тем, кто ты есть на самом деле, можно получить не ту работу, не тех друзей, бог знает что еще. Не свою жизнь.
Who refuses to distinguish between setback and catastrophe; who worships accomplishment above all else and makes himself unbearable to others because he genuinely believes he can root out and reform e...
You live with the threat of my extinction. I live with it too.
Where did the boy genius go? He had been, as a child, expected to be a neurosurgeon, or a great novelist. And now he's considering (or, okay, refusing to consider) law school. Was the burden of his po...
We always worry about the wrong things, don't we?
Venture too far for love... and you renounce citizenship in the country you've made for yourself. You end up just sailing from port to port.
This is one of the most singular experiences, waking on what feels like a good day, preparing to work but not yet actually embarked. At this moment there are infinite possibilities, whole hours ahead....
There is so little love in the world.
There is just this for consolation: an hour here or there, when our lives seem, against all odds and expectations, to burst open and give us everything we've ever imagined , though everyone but childr...
She'd never imagined it like this — when she'd thought of someone (a woman like herself ) losing her mind, she'd imagined shrieks and wails, hallucinations; but at that moment it had seemed clear that...
She knew she was going to have trouble believing in herself, in the rooms of her house, and when she glanced over at this new book on her nightstand, stacked atop the one she finished last night, she...
Like the morning you walked out of that old house, when you were eighteen and I was, well, I had just turned nineteen, hadn't I? I was a nineteen-year-old and I was in love with Louis and I was in lov...
It's hardly ever the destination we've been anticipating, is it? Our hopes may seem unrealized, but we were in all likelihood hoping for the wrong thing. Where did we - the species, that is - pick up...