Mireasma fanului uscat si curgerea domoala a apei trezira in el dorinta de a se culca intr-o claie de fan proaspat, intr-un sopron singuratic, departe de autostrazile zgomotoase, in spatele vreunei fe...
Maybe the books can get us half out of the cave. They just might stop us from making the same damm insane mistakes!
Los libros están para recordarnos lo tontos y estúpidos que fuimos.
Loro crederanno di pensare, avranno l'impressione del movimento anche se non si muovono affatto. E tutti saranno felici perché i fatti di quel genere non cambiano. Non dargli armi sdrucciolevoli come...
Lena? He glanced at the dictionary. Are you 'pleased, contented, joyful, delighted'? Do you feel 'Lucky, fortunate'? Are things 'clever and fitting,' 'successful and suitable' for you? Lena stopped sl...
La magia reside solamente en aquello que los libros dicen; en cómo cosen los harapos del universo para darnos una nueva vestidura.
I’m really alive! he thought. I never knew it before, or if I did I don’t remember!
It’s not books you need, it’s some of the things that once were in books. The same things could be in the parlour families today. The same infinite detail and awareness could be projected through the...
It’s not books you need, it’s some of the things that once were in books. The same things could be in the ‘parlor families’ today. The same infinite detail and awareness could be projected through the...
It's the way God runs the world.Tom thought about this for a moment.He's all right, Doug, said Tom. He tries.
It won't work,' Mr. Bentley continued, sipping his tea. 'No matter how hard you try to be what you once were, you can only be what you are here and now. Time hypnotizes. When you're nine, you think yo...
It stood in the middle of a vast yard behind the terribly strange house. And this tree rose up some one hundred feet in the air, taller than the high roofs and full and round and well branched, and co...
Isi purta fericirea ca pe o masca, iar fata aceea fugise cu masca prin curtea casei ei, si nu era chip sa se duca sa i-o ceara inapoi.
Is it because we’re having so much fun at home we’ve forgotten the world? Is it because we’re so rich and the rest of the world’s so poor and we just don’t care if they are? I’ve heard rumors; the wor...
Impossible; for how many people did you know who refracted your own light to you?
If it seems I've come the long way around, perhaps I have. But I wanted to show what we all have in us, that it has always been there, and so few of us bother to notice. When people ask me where I get...
I think all of us felt, I said, at least once in our lives, when we were young, we could go over there, after reading the bull stuff in the Spanish stories, that we could go over there and fight. Or a...
I think I begin to see where everything fell apart. The books I read, jetsam to you. Junk. Why didn't we realize that ten years back? Lots of things you don't notice when you're- he slowed- in love.
I suppose it's an unconscious little stream of wit that flows quietly under everything I do or say.
I miss that in the city you can walk outside your front door and there’s people all around you. And they don’t know a thing about you.You could be anyone.