It’s not a colony, another of the USIC interviewers said, with an edge to her voice. It’s a community. We do not use the word colony.
La curiosidad es el nombre despectivo que los hombres dan a la sed de conocimiento que tienen las mujeres.
Lose track of time for a moment –just long enough to be overtaken by a hundred and thirty years.
MERCY. It was a word she’d rarely encountered
Men! Armchair heroes the lot of them, while women were sent out to do the dirty work.
Never too late for vocabulary building, he said.
No desea que los hombres la consideren hermosa. Tal cosa sólo conduce a la infelicidad. Tampoco espera la admiración de otras mujeres; de ellas sólo espera una indiferencia cortés y un cotilleo rencor...
No such thing as childhood memories, he says. We're just playing games with our neurons every day, tossing them around the hippocampus, constructing little fairy tales featuring characters named after...
One of Lucy's admirers took to her, apparently.Took to her? echoes William, his own feelings for Sugar causing him to construe the phrase benignly.Yes, said Bodley With her own riding crop.Beat her ve...
Only the other day, Robbie had gone to a terrible disco in Alness, hoping it would transform his life in some way.
Our Lady is of the True Faith; the two of Them have an uneasy relationship, unable to agree on anything, except that if They divorce, the Devil will leap gleefully into the breach.
She holds her head as high as if she were beautiful, and holds her body as if she were strong.
Some people go through the heavy stuff. They fight in wars. They're in jail. They start a business and it gets shut down by gangsters. They end up hustling their ass in a foreign country. It's one lon...
Someone at work said to me this morning, Where is God in all this? I didn’t rise to the bait. I can never understand why people ask that question. The real question for the bystanders of tragedy is Wh...
Sugar leans her chin against the knuckles of the hand that holds the pen. Glistening on the page between her silk-shrouded elbows lies an unfinished sentence. The heroine of her novel has just slashed...
The holy book he’d spent so much of his life preaching from had one cruel flaw: it was not very good at offering encouragement or hope to those who weren’t religious. With God, nothing shall be imposs...
The variety of shapes, colours and textures under her feet was, she believed, literally infinite. It must be. Each shell, each pebble, each stone had been made what it was by aeons of submarine or sub...
The word troubled her, though. ‘Indispensable.’ It was a word people tended to resort to when dispensability was in the air.
Their consciousness was rudimentary.
There was a red button on the wall labeled EMERGENCY, but no button labeled BEWILDERMENT.
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