Daisy looked up at him with the kind of expression that Jesus might have given someone who had just explained that he was probably allergic to bread and fishes, so could He possibly do him a quick chi...
Better I should call to people who aren’t there than that people who are there should miss us because I didn’t say anything.
Behind them were the lights of the market, the lanterns and candles and witch-lights and fairy glitter, like a dream of the night sky brought down to earth.
Because there are mysteries. Because there are things that people are forbidden to speak about. Because there are things they do not remember.
And did I pass? The face of the old woman on my right was unreadable in the gathering dusk. On my left the younger woman said, You don't pass or fail at being a person, dear.
Always worth it to have tried, even if you fail, even if you fall like a meteor forever. Better to have flamed in the darkness, to have inspired others, to have lived, than to have sat in the darkness...
All we have to believe with is our senses, the tools we use to perceive the world: our sight, our touch, our memory. If they lie to us, then nothing can be trusted. And even if we do not believe, then...
A table for TONIGHT should certainly have been booked years before-perhaps, it was implied, by Richard's parents. A table for TONIGHT was impossible: if the pope, the prime minister, and the president...
A life that is, like any other, unlike any other.
A flash of resentment. It's hard enough being alive, trying to survive in the world and find your place in it, to do the things you need to do to get by, without wondering if the thing you just did, w...
¿Te han hechizado en alguna ocasión, Maureen Quilling? ¿Te has mirado alguna vez al espejo preguntándote si esos ojos que te miran desde el otro lado son en verdad los tuyos? ¿O alguna vez has estado...
You play your cards so close to your chest, said Shadow, that I'm not even sure they're really cards at all.
You get what anybody gets - you get a lifetime.
You eternals have long lives, but short memories. The changing people have short lives, but we do not forget.
You can know anything. It's all there. You just have to find it.
You can always cheat an honest man, but it takes more work.
Writers are liars my dear, surely you know that by now?
When we hold each other, in the darkness, it doesn't make the darkness go away. The bad things are still out there. The nightmares still walking. When we hold each other we feel not safe, but better....
What, asked Mr Croup, do you want?What, asked the Marquis de Carabas, a little more rhetorically, does anyone want?Dead things, suggested Mr Vandemar. Extra teeth.
This isn’t about what is, said Mr. Nancy. It’s about what people think is. It’s all imaginary anyway. That’s why it’s important. People only fight over imaginary things.