He held back nothing of himself in his effort to please his audience
To refrigerate a clock was an extremely violent act, not one I could explain to anyone.
She held out her hand, like a man. He hesitated, then took the hand and shook it. It was very warm. You could not help but be aware of the wild passage of blood on the other side of its wall, veins, c...
Harry saw his death as if it was someone else's. He watched himself from outside his body and he wasn’tscared at all… he found that he could slide between the spaces in the air itself.Ecstasy touched...
To know you will be lonely is not the same as being lonely.
We are alive on the very brink of eternity.
At the very end of a book I can manage to work for longer stretches, but mostly, making stuff up for three hours, that's enough. I can't do any more. At the end of the day I might tinker with my morni...
Lucinda might sneak from her own house at midnight to place a wager somewhere else, but she dared not touch the pack that lay in her own sideboard. She knew how passionate he had become about his 'wea...
They watched the flying foxes wheel above them, like shadows of thoughts, things so indistinct they would not exist without two witnesses.
However she was a woman and I'd have more luck conjuring up the thoughts of a chinaman than I would figuring out what she was conspiring
He was tender with her. He wiped her eyelids with his handkerchief, not noticing how soiled it was. It was stained with ink, crumpled, stuck together. Her lids were large and tender and the handkerchi...
Remember, this is the country of the duck-billed platypus. When you are cut off from the rest of the world, things are bound to develop in interesting ways.
And here is the thing about them men they was Australians they knew full well the terror of the unyielding law the historic memory of UNFAIRNESS were in their blood and a man might be a bank clerk or...
I did not know that history is like a blood stain that keeps on showing on the wall no matter how many new owners take possession, no matter how many times we pint over it.
I don't need new boots I got bluchers back down home. Eff the effing bluchers I'll buy you new adjectival effing elastic sided boots.
But now she could not bear the way she sounded. She was not a person anyone could love....And thus fled to her room. There she wept, bitterly, an ugly sound punctuated by great gulps. She could not st...
Oh, we were a degree or two hotter than improper.
Your American, you wouldn't know if you were up yourself.
My name is Herbert Badgery. I am a hundred and thirty-nine years old and something of a celebrity. They come and look at me and wonder how I do it. There are weeks when I wonder the same, whole stretc...
They had sat here, in this very room, their knees almost touching, and there had been a sense of almost breathless discovery, and while they had not become lovers everything was laid out, like a feast...
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