one blow in anger [would] kill, probably, a child from aged two to eight. Those over eight would take two blows to kill.
Perhaps it was freedom itself that choked her.
Honestly, I don't understand why people get so worked up about a little murder!
Robert Walker as Bruno was excellent. He had elegance and humor, and the proper fondness for his mother.
The flowers you gave me—they died.
That's exactly where you're wrong! Any kind of person can murder. Purely circumstances and not a thing to do with temperament! People get so far -- and it takes just the least little thing to push the...
There were many times when logic was of no comfort.
What a strange girl you are. Why? Flung out of space,
I won't ever set the world on fire as a painter,' Dickie said, 'but I get a great deal of pleasure out of it.
For here it was now, as clear as it had ever been. And, worst of all, he was aware of an impulse to tell Bruno everything, the stranger on the train who would listen, commiserate, and forget. The idea...
And everything was made of paper: sentences, pardons, pleas, bad records, demerits, proof of guilt, but never, it seemed, proof of innocence. If there were no paper, Carter felt, the entire judicial s...
Society's law was lax compared to the law of conscience
My angel, Carold said. Flung out of space.
Death was only one more adventure untried.
Carol looked at her. How do you become a poet?By feeling things - too much, I suppose, Therese answered conscientiously.
What was it to love someone, what was love exactly, and why did it end or not end? Those were the real questions, and who could answer them.
Forever, Tom thought. Maybe he’d never go back to the States. It was not so much Europe itself as the evenings he had spent alone, here and in Rome, that made him feel that way. Evenings by himself si...
Did the world always mete out just deserts?
Why should Dickie want to come back to subways and taxis and starched collars and a nine-to- five job? Or even a chauffeured car and vacations in Florida and Maine? It wasn't as much fun as sailing a...
I know what they'd like, they'd like a blank they could fill in. A person already filled in disturbs them terribly.