Grief is a peculiar emotion.
As she made coffee in the kitchen and tried to spoon the frozen ice-cream from its carton without snapping the shaft off the spoon, Elizabeth was struck, not for the first time, by the thought that he...
As he rounded the corner, he saw two dozen men, naked to the waist, digging a hole thirty yards square at the side of the path. For a moment he was baffled. It seemed to have no agricultural purpose;...
The men loved jokes, though they had heard each one before. Jack's manner was persuasive; few of them had seen the old stories so well delivered. Jack himeself laughed a little, but he was able to see...
Knowing one was comprised of recycled matter only and that selfhood was a delusion did not take away the aching of the heart.
It's better to have a malign providence than an indifferent one.
I've missed you, Frank.''I haven't breathed since you left.
Currents of desire and excitement that she had not known or thought about for years now flooded in her. She wanted him to bring alive what she had buried, and to demean, destroy, her fabricated self.
Alcohol provokes stupidity; opium provokes wisdom.
That sense of happiness just out beyond my reach - I'm not sure I'd grasped that exactly, but I'd got something close to it, contentment maybe, or at least a functioning routine with regular rewards.
I'd never chosen to be alone, but that was the way things had turned out, and I'd grown used to it.
I will think of you every day. All the time. If ever you should think of me and wonder what I'm doing, I'm thinking of you. That's all I'll be doing. Nothing else.
I felt trapped in a world that I couldn't mould to my own desires. Others were in sunlight; I was in darkness.
His own men, those who would attack in the morning, knelt on the earth, faces hidden behind one hand, in an agonizing tunnel of their own, a darkness where there was no time but where they tried to lo...
Cheers,' she said as I left, 'and don't forget you're seeing Matt and I on Monday.'I thought for a moment she'd said 'matineye', an East End pronunciation of 'matinee'. Was I meant to review it?
And in that history you're trying to connect to something that once was yours - to something purer, better, something that you lost or something, maybe, that you never knew but that you feel you knew.
Under the treaty of Sevres in 1920 Greece had been given Smyrna, and by 1922 the Greek army was trying to push its way up the Aegean coast. The Turks, however, had found a leader in Mustafa Kemal (Kem...
To wake up and feel enlivened; to be in a hurry to get out of bed and into the day. To have friends you want to speak to, compare experiences with and be on the phone to...Well, to be honest, I'm stil...
There is only one life; it is therefore perfect.
The physical shock took away the pain of being.