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...
Some people go through 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 long li...
That was the sort of thing crazy people did—instinctively choosing the experiences that confirmed their own negative attitudes.
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.
The indiscriminate, eternal devotion of nature to its numberless particles had an emotional importance for Isserley; it put the
Un solo día dedicado a cosas que no alimentan el espíritu es un día robado, mutilado y arrojado a la alcantarilla del destino.
Unreality was swirling all around her like the delirious miasmas
Without you at my side, I feel as though my eyes are just a camera, like a closed-circuit camera without film in it, registering what’s out there, second by second, letting it all vanish instantly to...
[...] how can one sleep while dancing at the edge of waves?
Away, and she could carry a bag on each arm, providing
All along the street, keys rattle in key-holes as each shop's ornate metal clothing is stripped away...It's as if, having unlocked the chastity of shutters and doors, they can't see the point in maint...
As Christians, we should spread the love of Christ. If we do our job right, we’ll create people who don’t want to do wrong.
Caroline stands at the window, watching Nellie Griffiths and old Mrs Mulvaney trot down the street on their way to the jam factory. Poor ugly biddies: they spend their daylight hours drudging in the s...
Coincidences like that served as a reminder that, variations in pigment aside, humans were all part of the same species.
Drying herself with the hem of her shift, she notes that her two candles are dimming; one of them is already a guttering stub. Will she light new ones? Well, that depends on what time of night it is,...
God, Agnes has decided, is an Anglican, whereas 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 lea...
Hoy es el día, el día tormentoso y memorable en que meterá en vereda a su futuro incontrolado.
Isserley walked along the path the generations of sheep-flocks had made, up the tiers of the hill. In her mind, she was already
La educación es cebar al cordero antes de matarlo.
Let’s not go there.’ ‘That’s what people always say about places where they already are.
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