I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things collapsed. I could not control the world I was in, could not walk away from things or people or mome...
I feel like I'm in a world with its own sense of logic. Its own rules. Like when you're in a dream, and you know there are rules you mustn't break. Even if you don't know what they mean. I'm just goin...
I have a feeling,’ he said, ‘I have a feeling that we were meant to be together. That we have fought the good fight, side by side, in the past or in the future, I do not know. I am a rational man, but...
I have always felt that violence was the last refuge of the incompetent, and empty threats the last sanctuary of the terminally inept.
I have always felt, he said, that violence was the last refuge of the incompetent, and empty threats the final sanctuary of the terminally inept.
I have always felt, he said, that violence was the last refuge of the incompetent, and empty threats
I hope you'll make mistakes. If you're making mistakes, it means you're out there doing something.
I knew enough about adults to know that if did tell them what had happened, I would not be believed. Adults rarely seemed to believe me when I told the truth anyway.
I know, said November. He was pale and thin lipped. He helped October out of the wooden chair. I like your stories. Mine are always too dark.I don’t think so, said October. It’s just that your nights...
I knowed a man in Paphlagonia who'd swallow a live snake every morning, when he got up. He used to say, he was certain of one thing, that nothing worse would happen to him all day. 'Course they made h...
I like airplanes. I like anywhere that isn't a proper place. I like in betweens.
I like the stars. It’s the illusion of permanence, I think. I mean, they’re always flaring up and caving in and going out. But from here, I can pretend… I can pretend that things last. I can pretend t...
I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children stories. They were better than than that. They just were. Adult stories never made sense, and they were slow to start. They made me...
I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.
I loved all books that I could read, and I never knew if I was ready for one until I tried to read it, so I tried to read everything.
I loved to sleep with the window open. Rainy nights were the best of all: I would open the window and put my head on the pillow and close my eyes and feel the wind on my face and listen to the trees s...
I make art, sometimes I make true art, and sometimes it fills the empty places in my life. Some of them. Not all.
I miss you', he admitted. 'I'm here', she said. 'That's when I miss you most. When you're here. When you aren't here, when you're just a ghost of the past or a dream from another life, it's easier the...
I only have two kinds of dreams: the bad and the terrible. Bad dreams I can cope with. They're just nightmares, and the end eventually. I wake up. The terrible dreams are the good dreams. In my terrib...
I opened the door. Don’t do that, said a green, globby person. You’ll let the space-time continuum in.
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