She prays she's bought another clutch of days. We save our lives in such unlikely ways.
Por muy lejos que te vayas, nunca conseguirás huir de ti mismo.
Most people do not notice other people.
It's not sipping wine. It's a mourning wine. You drain it. Like this.
It's easier to lie to yourself when you say things out loud.
It is sometimes a mistake to climb; it is always a mistake never even to make the attempt. If you do not climb, you will not fall. This is true. But is it that bad to fail, that hard to fall?
It is not that I was credulous, simply that I belived in all things dark and dangerous. It was part of my young creed that the night was full of ghosts and witches, hungry and flapping and dressed com...
In a perfect world, you could fuck people without giving them a piece of your heart. And every glittering kiss and every touch of flesh is another shard of heart you’ll never see again.
If I could talk about it, I would not have to do it. I make art.
I believe that in the battle between guns and ideas, ideas will, eventually, win. Because the ideas are invisible, and they linger, and, sometimes, they can even be true. Eppur si muove: and yet it mo...
I am old now, or at least, I am no longer young, and everything I see reminds me of something else I’ve seen, such that I see nothing for the first time. A bonny girl, her hair fiery red, reminds me o...
Five girls sat beside, and upon the branches of, the oldest apple tree in the orchard, its huge trunk making a fine seat and support; and whenever the May breeze blew, the pink blossoms tumbled down l...
Fiction is the lie that tells the truth, after all.
Because people would have to remember books, if other people burn them or forget them. We will commit them to memory. We will become them. We become authors. We become their books.
A story only matters, I suspect, to the extent that the people in the story change.
A book is a dream that you hold in your hands.
Sometimes the best way to learn something is by doing it wrong and looking at what you did.
I tended to do anything as long as it felt like an adventure, and to stop when it felt like work. Which meant that life did not feel like work.
If you're doing it right... you should feel while you're doing it that you're revealing a little too much of yourself.
Life is always going to be stranger than fiction, because fiction has to be convincing, and life doesn't.