Somewherein him, a shadow turned mournfully over. You had to run with anightlike thisso the sadness could not hurt.
Sometimes I am stunned at my capacity as a nine-year-old, to understand my entrapment and escape it... Where did I find the courage to rebel, to change my life, live alone? I don't want to over-estima...
Si vous cachez votre ignorance, vous ne recevrez pas de coups et vous n'apprendrez rien.
Si no quieres que un hombre se sienta políticamente desgraciado, no le enseñes dos aspectos de una misma cuestión, para preocuparle; enséñale sólo uno. O, mejor aún, no le des ninguno.
She wanted the boy put in a vise and squashed. She wanted him reamed and punctured and given the laying-on-of-hands. To be beaten from playground to kindergarten, to grammar school, to junior high, to...
She didn’t watch the dead, ancient bone-chess cities slide under, or the old canals filled with emptiness and dreams. Past dry rivers and dry lakes they flew, like a shadow of the moon, like a torch b...
See, boys? Moundshroud’s face flickered with the fire. The days of the Long Cold are done. Because of this one brave, new-thinking man, summer lives in the winter cave. But? said Tom. What’s that got...
Quisiera recordar - dijo Ylla rompiendo el silencio y mirando a lo lejos, más allá de la figura de su marido, frío, erguido, de mirada amarilla. - ¿Qué quisieras recordar? - preguntó el señor K bebien...
Primul lucru, dupa cum spuneam, e calitatea cunostintelor noastre. Al doilea lucru, strans legat de primul, e ragazul necesar pentru a le digera. Iar al treilea e dreptul de a savarsi fapte intemeiate...
People forget if they don't keep testing things.
Once upon a time there were two cities within a city. One was light and one was dark. One moved restlessly all day while the other never stirred. One was warm and filled with ever-changing lights. One...
Odio a un romano llamado Status Quo, me decía, llénate los ojos de asombro, vive como si fueras a morir en los próximos diez segundos. Observa el universo. Es más fantástico que cualquier sueño constr...
No matter how hard you try to be what you once were, you can only be what you are here and now.
No fantasy, no reality. No studies concerning loss, no gain. No imagination, no will. No impossible dreams: No possible solutions.
Mildred had already anticipated this in a quavery voice.
Memories, as my father once said, are porcupines. To hell with them! Stay away from them! They make you unhappy. They ruin your work. They make you cry
Melt all the guns, I thought, break the knives, burn the guillotines-and the malicious will still write letters that kill.
MOTHER:Why, just lying there, Jim, you run so fast. I never saw anyone move so much, just sleeping. Promise me, Jim. Wherever you go and come back, bring lots of kids. Let them run wild. Let me spoil...
Love will fly if held too lightly, love will die if held too tightly.
Los buenos escritores tocan a menudo la vida. Los mediocres la rozan rápidamente. Los malos la violan y la abandonan a las moscas