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...
William Rackham es lo que podríamos llamar un cristiano ateo supersticioso; es decir, cree en un Dios que si bien puede que ya no sea responsable de que salga el sol, de salvar a la reina o de proveer...
Why was even the shallowest human conversation so fraught with pitfalls and tricky calibrations? Why couldn’t people just keep silent until they had something essential to say, like the Oasans?
Un solo día dedicado a cosas que no alimentan el espíritu es un día robado, mutilado y arrojado a la alcantarilla del destino.
UFCNo 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 af...
To be brutally honest, all these men were falling apart, hair by hair and tooth by tooth, like over-used pieces of equipment, like tools bought cheap for a job that would outlast them. While
These days, the bigger the company, the less you can figure out what it does. Time was when a car company made cars, a mining company dug mines. It’s not like that anymore.
Their wealth makes them like a different creature, an exotic thing that doesn’t have to function like a human.
Strange how a specimen like him, well cared for, healthy, free to roam the world, and blessed with a perfection of form which would surely have allowed him to breed with a greater selection of females...
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...
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.
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...
Most distracting of all, though, was not the threat of danger but the allure of beauty.
Let’s not go there.’ ‘That’s what people always say about places where they already are.
It was such an infantile prayer, the sort of prayer a five-year-old might pray. But maybe those were the best kind.
It was a husk, no longer truly their mother - more like their mother's most treasured possession, which had been given to them as a parting gift.
Isserley walked along the path the generations of sheep-flocks had made, up the tiers of the hill. In her mind, she was already
Isn't Heaven reward enough, without needing to see the damned punished?
Hoy es el día, el día tormentoso y memorable en que meterá en vereda a su futuro incontrolado.
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...