In a world of monotonous horror there could be no salvation in wild dreaming. Horror he had adjusted to. But monotony was the greater obstacle, and he realized it now, understood it at long last. And...
He ignored that, beginning to suspect his mind of harboring an alien. Once he might have termed it conscience. Now it was only an annoyance. Morality, after all, had fallen with society. He was his ow...
He brushed his teeth carefully and used dental floss. He tried to take good care of his teeth because he was his own dentist now. Some things could go to pot, but not his health, he thought. Then why...
Come out, Neville.
But it's so hard to make things simple and so easy to make them complicated.
At home he found the same threats waiting for him. He unlocked the door and stepped into the trap he had formed around him.
And to kill one’s self is to violate the law because it deprives that self of working out the needs of its life.
All he knew was that. magically, both of them were naked and Marianna was bestowing upon him the kind of headlong wantonness that he'd imagined only in his most covert of fantasies - wordless, unconfi...
…Not that it was unjust; not that the scales were forced out of balance. Where there had been good, it showed as clearly. Kindnesses, accomplishments, all those were present, too.
Слеп лишь тот, кто не желает видеть.
Разве может быть порицание более суровое, чем самоосуждение, когда притворство более невозможно?
When matter is put aside, all creation becomes exclusively mental, that’s all.
What condemnation could possibly be more harsh than one’s own, when self-pretense is no longer possible?
They were completely devoted to each other. Except for us children, they seemed to have need for no one but each other. Not that they didn’t see people. People liked them and wanted to see them, you k...
It was not my pain but Ann’s. She was crying, frightened. Because I was hurt. She was afraid for me. I felt her anguish. She was suffering terribly. I tried to will away the shadows but I couldn’t. Tr...
For him the word 'horror' had become obsolete.
Each man’s life is a tome of episodes. Consider all the moments of your life enumerated one by one with full description.
Chris Nielsen: Thank you for every kindness. Thank you for our children. For the first time I saw them. Thank you for being someone I was always proud to be with. For your guts, for your sweetness. Fo...
As her analyst had told her: the deeper buried the distress, the further into the body it went. The digestive system was about as far as it could go to hide.
All without knowing what it was to love and be loved. That was a tragedy more terrible than becoming a vampire.