I've got to stay awake,' she said, punching her cheeks until the roses came. 'There isn't time to sleep, I'd look consumptive, I'd sag like a tenement, and that wouldn't be fair: a girl can't go to Si...
If I do feel guilty, I guess it's because I let him go on dreaming when I wasn't dreaming a bit.
In the country, spring is a time of small happenings happening quietly, hyacinth shoots thrusting in a garden, willows burning with a sudden frosty fire of green, lengthening afternoons of long flowin...
It is easy to ignore the rain if you have a raincoat
Most secrets should never be told, but especially those that are more menacing to the listener than to the teller.
My, how foolish I am! You know what I've always thought? I've always thought a body would have to be sick and dying before they saw the Lord. And I imagined that when He came it would be like looking...
There's lots of things you don't know. All kinds of strange things . . . mostly they happened before we were born: that makes them seem to me so much more real.
They can romanticize us so, mirrors, and that is their secret: what a subtle torture it would be to destroy all the mirrors in the world: where then could we look for reassurerance of our identities?...
You call yourself a free spirit, a wild thing, and you're terrified somebody's gonna stick you in a cage. Well baby, you're already in that cage. You built it yourself. And it's not bounded in the wes...
Be anything but a coward, a pretender, an emotional crook, a whore: I'd rather have cancer than a dishonest heart. Which isn't being pious. Just practical.
He left soon afterwards, leaving her alone in the dark room, illuminated time to time by shocking leaps of heat lightning, and she thought, now it will rain, and it never did, and she thought, now he...
He loved her, he loved her, and until he'd loved her she had never minded being alone, she'd liked to much to be alone. At school, where all the girls had crushes on one another and trailed in sweethe...
How do you feel if you're in love? she asked. Ah, said Rosita with swooning eyes, you feel as though pepper has been sprinkled on your hear, as though tiny fish are swimming in your veins.
How unnecessary, said Amy. The child's morbid enough.All children are morbid: it's their one saving grace, said Randolph, and went right ahead.
I couldn't understand a sense of unease that multiplied until I could hear my heart beating.
I don't want to own anything until I find a place where me and things go together.
I don´t want to own anything until I know I have found the place where me and things belong together. I´m not quite sure where that is just yet. But I know what it´s like.
I want to still be me when I wake up one fine morning and have breakfast at Tiffany´s.
It is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy.
It’s better to look at the sky than live there. Such an empty place; so vague. Just a country where the thunder goes.
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