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.
I find that when I come out of the library I’m in what I call the library bliss of being totally taken away from the distractions of life.
Had come to London for a reason, not to enjoy anonymity and solitude whilst eyeing the wider horizon.
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.
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...
The second he was gone the women began chattering like chickens at the sight of a fox.
Stay here and do the packing and let the young one run all over California for you! Don't you always say the success of collecting is in the packing? You're the boss--take the most important role and...
If redwoods are the backbone of California, oaks are of England.
I feel like a bird who has been wounded with an arrow and now cannot fly.
Life itself was far messier and didn’t end so tidily with the heroine making the right match.
I liked sleeping in the attic. There was no Crucifixion scene hanging at the foot of the bed to trouble me. There were no paintings at all, but the clean scent of linseed oil and the musk of the earth...
I had always thought of the sea as a boundary keeping me in my place on land. Now, though, it became an opening.
My father was often impatient during March, waiting for winter to end, the cold to ease, the sun to reappear. March was an unpredictable month, when it was never clear what might happen. Warm days rai...
Paintings may serve a spiritual purpose for Catholics, but remember too that Protestants see God everywhere, in everything. By painting everyday things—tables and chairs, bowls and pitchers, soldiers...
He stood there at the edge of the orchard looking like he would never be whole again.
It was not a house where secrets could be kept easily.
Yes, well, life is a folly. If you live long enough, nothing is surprising.
Yalnızca hırsızlar ve çocuklar koşar.
There is no need to fear, he said, for you are here with me.
I slowed my pace. Years of hauling water, wringing out clothes, scrubbing floors, emptying chamber pots, with no chance of beauty or color or light in my life, stretched before me like a landscape of...
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