It's a rare book that wins the battle against drooping eyelids.
Yes, my boy; yes, my girl. The tension between contraries is what makes us ourselves. We have not just one, but the other too, mixing and clashing and sparking inside us. Not just light, but dark. Not...
Everything engravers do gets printed opposite. The engraver has to be able to see it both ways.
As I get older, I use less jewelry - necklace or earrings each morning, not both; my clothes are getting more basic - fewer colours and simpler cuts; and my make-up is stripped back to basics.
I did not sleep well that night. I was not used to having the power to affect someone’s life so and did not easily carry its weight, as a man might have done.
Marry. Fanny was having all the time what I experienced only the once with Colonel Birch in the orchard. I had my fame to comfort me, and the money it brought in, but that only went so far. I could no...
But John Chapman told us he didnt eat meat cause he couldnt stand for somethin livin to be killed jest to keep him alive.
Pieter would be pleased with the rest of the coins, the debt now settled. I would not have cost him anything. A maid came free.
There followed a time when everything was dull. The things that had meant something lost importance, though they were still there, like bruises on the body that fade to hard lumps under the skin.
Though grafted at the same time, they had grown up to be different sizes; it always surprised James that the trees could turn out as varied as his children.
He stood there at the edge of the orchard looking like he would never be whole again.
In the clear brown were little flecks of black like pieces of bark
I stood by the fire, everyone around me so cheerful, and thought what an odd creature I am – even I know that. Too much space and I’m frightened, too little and I’m frightened. There is indeed no comf...
Of all the cities he had been to—Detroit, Indianapolis, Chicago, St. Louis, Salt Lake City—San Francisco was by far the worst.
There is no need to fear, he said, for you are here with me.
Nance is funny that way. She likes women her own size--like your sister. She knows where she is with a woman like Martha. Whereas Molly--she's so--well, so full of life, she makes Nance feel even sick...
Married women that I noticed, their solid smugness at not having to worry about the course of their future. Married women were set like jelly in a mold, whereas spinsters like me were formless and unp...
I wanted to wear the mantle and the pearls. I wanted to know the man who painted her like that.
At first I could not meet his eyes. When I did it was like sitting close to a fire that suddenly blazes up.
Truly to appreciate what fossils are requires a leap of imagination he was not capable of making.
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