That’s how fossil hunting is: It takes over, like a hunger, and nothing else matters but what you find. And even when you find it, you still start looking again the next minute, because there might be...
Sólo los ladrones y los niños corren.
She'd had a terrible time with his brothers' wives : seeing her with them was like watching someone pet a cat against its fur.
Margaret grasped on to the magic of novels because they held out hope that Mary—and she herself—might yet have a chance at marriage. While my own experience of life was limited, I knew such a thing wo...
It seemed to me that the baker had an honest response to the painting. Van Ruijven tried too hard when he looked at paintings, with his honeyed words and studied expressions. He was too aware of havin...
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...
I had walked along that street all my life, but had never been so aware that my back was to my home
In the cartoon of Sight. It
You know I don’t listen to market gossip, she began,but it is hard not to hear it when my daughter’s name is mentioned.
Yes, well, life is a folly. If you live long enough, nothing is surprising.
Over his shoulder I saw a star fall. It was me.
I had not yet been down to the cellar where I was to sleep. I took a candle with me but was too tired to look around beyond finding a bed, pillow and blanket. Leaving the trap door of the cellar open...
نپرسیدم تا چه حد برای گرفتن این اطلاعات خودش را به خطر انداخته. زیر لب گفتم، « متشکرم پیتر. » برای نخستین بار بود که نامش را بر زبان آورده بودم.به چشمانش نگریستم و مهربانی را در آن ها دیدم. در عین حال...
The grandeur false if you were not grand yourself.
While Molly and Joseph Anning suffered materially that winter, with many days of weak soup and weaker fires, Mary barely noticed how little she was eating or the chilblains on her hands and feet. She...
We had not meant our choice to cut us off from our past, but it did. We had only the present and the future to think of in Lyme.
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...
My mommy told meIf I was goodyThat she would buy meA rubber dollyMy sister told herI kissed a soldierNow she won't buy meThat rubber dollyNow I am deadAnd in my grave
Life itself was far messier and didn’t end so tidily with the heroine making the right match.