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...
Men! Armchair heroes the lot of them, while women were sent out to do the dirty work.
He cupped his testicles in his hands, and, with his wrists, pressed his penis hard against his belly until the semen came.
Anyway, Peter continued. I got the most welcome. These people are desperate to learn about God!Well, ain’t that a lick on the dick, said BG.
William pouts irritably. Socialism is not the same thing as letting one’s servants muddle towards anarchy. But never mind, never mind: on a day like today, it’s not worth worrying over. Soon the serva...
The word troubled her, though. ‘Indispensable.’ It was a word people tended to resort to when dispensability was in the air.
So much for yesterday. Today, Sophie’s formal education must begin. Dressing the lamb before the kill, as Mrs Castaway once put it, when Sugar dared to ask what, exactly, education is.
She holds her head as high as if she were beautiful, and holds her body as if she were strong.
Shared suffering, she’d found, was no guarantee of intimacy.
Only the other day, Robbie had gone to a terrible disco in Alness, hoping it would transform his life in some way.
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.
В глазах Господа все мужчины и женщины нагие. Одежда — фиговый листок, не более. А тела под одеждой — лишь еще одна прослойка, одеяние из плоти под непрактичной оболочкой тонкой кожи разнообразных отт...
Unreality was swirling all around her like the delirious miasmas
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...
That was the sort of thing crazy people did—instinctively choosing the experiences that confirmed their own negative attitudes.
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...
Peter's hands had ceased trembling. He had been granted perspective. This was not Gethsemane: he wasn't headed for Golgotha, he was embarking on a great adventure. He'd been chosen out of thousands, t...
Lose track of time for a moment –just long enough to be overtaken by a hundred and thirty years.
God preserve us from fuddle-headed young men who want money for building cloud-castles!
Falling in love: how does it work? Over the years we gather the odd clue, but nothing adds up. We’d like to think we have a picture of our future partner projected in our mind, all their qualities rec...