There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.
The Taylors have this gift for imperturbable presence. They are not nervous talkers. The Harrises, on the other hand, have always been constant talkers, not so much for the sake of entertainment or in...
She is better, she is safer, if she rests in Richmond; if she does not speak too much, write too much, feel too much; if she does not travel impetuously to London and walk through its streets; and yet...
Provincetown is by nature a destination. It is the land’s end; it is not en route to anywhere else. One of its charms is the fact that those who go there have made some effort to do so. Provincetown i...
One of the reasons ordinary people are incapable of magic is simple dearth of conviction.
Not all people were meant to be lovers.
Love, it seems, arrives not only unannounced, but so accidentally, so randomly, as to make you wonder why you, why anyone, believes even fleetingly in laws of cause and effect.
It's the world, you live in it, even if some boy has made a fool of you.
It is only after knowing him for some time that you begin to realize you are, to him, an essentially fictional character, one he has invested with nearly limitless capacities for tragedy and comedy no...
I feel like there's something terrible and wonderful and amazing that's just beyond my grasp. I have dreams about it. I do dream, by the way. It hovers over me at odd moments. And then it's gone. I fe...
Constantine, eight years old, was working in his father's garden and thinking about his own garden, a square of powdered granite he had staked out and combed into rows at the top of his family's land.
But magic is sometimes all about knowing where the secret door is, and how to open it. With that, you’re gone
And when somebody comes up to me with big hair and gobs of makeup on and says, 'Can I help you,' it's all I can do not to scream, 'Bitch, you can't even help yourself.
В присутствии Джонатана моя жизнь съеживалась до каких-то смехотворных размеров, и я только и ждал, когда он наконец уедет в аэропорт, потому что в тот же миг нарушенный масштаб восстанавливался, и я...
What you are, more than anything, is alive.
Visions are answers. Answers imply questions. It
She wants to have baked a cake that banishes sorrow, even if only for a little while.
She knew she was going to have trouble believing in herself, in the room of her house, and when she glanced over at this new book on her nightstand, stacked atop the one she finished last night, she r...
She has failed. She wishes she didn't mind. Something, she thinks, is wrong with her.
Podsjeti se: u jelu nema ništa loše. Ne misli na trulež ni na izmetine; ne misli na lice u zrcalu.