A child’s disquiet is as potent as a damp fart.
Well, I did my best,' said Amlis, in a self-deprecating purr. 'But I can tell when a challenge is hopeless. Anyway, it's not your minds I need to change.' And he glanced round at the contents of the s...
Grainger looked exasperated. Why don’t you just come straight out and use the word ?Because the aliens here.
Forgive me, Lord, for the smallness and selfishness of my mind. Amen.
Oh how she wondered, what she looked like to him, in his alien innocence.
Could indicate the cocky self-awareness of a male in prime condition.
Yes, seven years old she was, when she finally plucked up the courage to ask her mother what Christmas was all about, and Mrs Castaway replied (once only, after which the subject was forever forbidden...
The past was dwindling, like something shrinking to a speck in the rear-view mirror, and the future was shining through the windscreen, demanding her full attention.
She talks about being a Christian as if it’s a gym membership you can sign up for.
Never too late for vocabulary building, he said.
Anyway, when sophisticated technology fails, primitive technology steps in to do the job.
A person who is worth nothing must introduce you to a person worth next-to-nothing, and that person to another, and so on and so forth until finally you can step across the threshold, almost one of th...
Away, and she could carry a bag on each arm, providing
You know,’ Amlis went on, ‘Some water fell out of the sky not so long ago.’ His voice was a little higher than usual, vulnerable with awe. ‘It just fell out of the sky. In little droplets, thousands o...
Sugar understood the permanence of being Sugar or Lotty or Lucy or whoever you might be, trapped on a square of card to be shown at will to strangers. Whatever violations she routinely submits to in t...
Peter was struck by the scar’s essential nature: it was not a disfigurement, it was a miracle. All the scars ever suffered by anyone in the whole of human history were not suffering but triumph: trium...
El hombre no sólo vive de alta cultura.
As he drove on, the sense that they were not on the same page –that they needed different things at this crucial time –entered the car like a discomfiting presence. He’d thought –he’d felt –that yeste...
Proof, once again, that reality was not objective, but always waiting to be reshaped and redefined by one's attitude.
— Большинство истин довольно банальны на самом деле. Но мы усложняем их из чистого стеснения. Простые истины покрыты одеждой сложности. Единственный смысл лингвистической одежды в том, чтобы люди не у...