Hey presto: time travel. You don't need a time machine, it turns out, you just need a friend to laugh like a teenager. Chronology shivers.
Well. it's all been interesting,' Hannah declared, standing to leave. 'But if I'm honest, I'd prefer my life to be a lot more mundane from now on.
You can never go back, only forward. I read that in a book once.
And so later Hannah was back at the kitchen table in her house. Sitting where she’d sat earlier. Her place. Hannah didn’t know that humankind has a deep-set belief in the idea that we create and maint...
Never ask questions if you might not want to know the answers, lest you are pulled into those stories and the truths they reveal. Sometimes ignorance is better. It would probably not be so popular oth...
He couldn't make the thought go anywhere, and soon zoned out into watching the television screen. It showed a crazy-haired old gent tramping around an undistinguished patch of countryside. He couldn't...
You have become all the things you have done and thought, and now can’t undo or unthink.
The Devil waited until he was sure the two policemen were going to keep their side of the bargain. A man called Nietzsche once observed that there is no such thing as moral phenomena, only a moral *in...
It is the aimless who find the wrong roads, and drive down them, simply because they have nowhere else to go.
My father used to claim that inanimate objects hate us and plot our downfall behind our backs. He was probably right.
You have to accept gifts occasionally, because there are some things you can’t give yourself
I work in my study, taking the collections of words that people send me and making small adjustments to them, changing something here and there, checking everything is in order and putting a part of m...
You know when you've got nothing in particular to do, nothing to stay awake for? When your life is just routine and it doesn't feel like it belongs to you, how you feel tired and listless and everythi...
You still search for Narnia, even though by then you're too old to believe in it and it doesn't want you there.
Being me is not a fate everyone would enjoy. There are risks, and frequent disappointments. I'm not all that keen on the arrangement myself, to be honest.
Though we all inhabit the same place during the day, at night each one of us is hurled into a several world.
In your twenties you unquestioningly believe you're writing in pencil, a striking first draft. You do things with such confidence. You know you're so strong, so individual, wholly unique: that you hav...
The greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all. No other loss can occur so quietly; any other loss—an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife...
Of our jobs are bad jobs, but they’re the kind held by people in the background. People who are getting by. People who don’t play pool that well.
There are times when life seems like a struggle where the only reward you get for hanging on is the chance to struggle some more.
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