And when she went out it seemed to her that she too had migrated, that everyone migrates, even if we stay in the same houses our whole lives, because we can't help it. We are all migrants through time...
For when we migrate, we murder from our lives those we leave behind.
След обяд имахме практически упражнения, предназначени да ни запознаят с компютърни програми като PowerPoint, Excel и Access. За този курс седяхме в полукръг около благ инструктор с вид на библиотекар...
They faced it not with bravery, exactly, and not with panic either, not mostly, but instead with a resignation shot through with moments of tension, with tension ebbing and flowing, and when the tensi...
Our eternally impending ending does not put a stop to our transient beginnings and middles until the instant when it does.
For personalities are not a single immutable colour, like white or blue, but rather illuminated screens, and the shades we reflect depend much on what is around us.
Ambitious cleric position: Religion makes us all equal; only I decide what religion says.
A beautiful memory one knows has already commenced to fade. •
Without being conscious of it, you have allowed yourself to become fond of him not for the content of his character but for the fidelity of his echo.
When he prayed he touched his parents, who could not otherwise be touched, and he touched a feeling that we are all children who lose our parents, all of us, every man and woman and boy and girl, and...
We need language. We need language to tell stories. We need stories to create a self. We need a self because the complexity of the chemical processes that make up our individual humanities exceeds the...
The old woman had become a rich woman on paper, the house now worth a fortune, and her children were always pestering her to sell it, saying she didn't need all that space. But she told them to be pat...
The island was pretty safe, they were told, except when it was not, which made it like most places.
Soon a rhythm was established, and it was thereafter rare that more than a few waking hours would pass without contact between them, and they found themselves in those early days of their romance grow...
It was the sort of view that might command a slight premium during gentler, more prosperous times, but would be most undesirable in times of conflict, when it would be squarely in the path of heavy ma...
Islam is not a race, yet Islamophobia partakes of racist characteristics.
Indeed, all books, each and every book ever written, could be said to be said to be offered to the reader as a form of self-help. Textbooks, those whores, as particularly explicit in acknowledging thi...
I could not respect how he functioned so completely immersed in the structures of his professional micro-universe. Yes, I too had previously derived comfort from my firm's exhortations to focus intens...
But you can always justify killing animals on the grounds that you want to eat them, or wear them, or that they smell bad, look funny, bother you, threaten you, and have the bad luck of being in your...
But mostly there was little to report, just the day-to-day goings-on of countless people working and living and aging and falling in and out of love, as is the case everywhere, and so not deemed worth...