Bizi sevmeyen herhangi birinin yaralı, eksik ve bir şekilde hasta olduğunu nereden çıkarıyoruz? Özellikle de bir Tanrı'yı veya ağlayan Meryem Ana'yı veya İsa'nın yüzünü bize tercih ettikleri zaman onl...
And so it happened again, the daily miracle whereby interiority opens out and brings to bloom the million-petalled flower of being here, in the world, with other people. Neither as hard as she had tho...
'this is real. This life. We're really here - this is really happening. Suffering is real. When you hurt people, it's real. When you fuck one of our best friends, that's a real thing and it hurts me.
She believed in her own good timing, in timing itself, as a mystical force, a form of fate, operating at the global and cosmic level as much as at the personal.
Grass can be seen, although it is important not to
You say you want to talk, But you don't . You stonewall me.
When you are not at home in your self, as a child, you don’t experience your self as natural or inevitable—as so many other people seem to do—and this, though melancholy at the time, can come with cer...
When you are guilty, all you can ask for is a deferral of the judgement. ‘Whatever,
Well, maybe I use the wrong word in English. I mean that for Lamin the future is as certain as the past.
This is what divorce is: taking things you no longer want from people you no longer love.
They were properly mad in the Shakespearean sense, talking sense when you least expected it. In North London, where councillors once voted to change the name of the area to Nirvana, it is not unusual...
They didn't mean it to be like this. But it was like this. Both had other intentions. Howard had knocked on the door eight minutes ago, filled with hope, his heart loosened by music, his mind stunned...
There was a sense in which she couldn’t quite believe in violence, as if it were, in her view, too stupid to be real. I knew—from Lambert only—that her own childhood had been full of violence, emotion...
Then again, the more time I spend with the tail end of Generation Facebook (in the shape of my students) the more convinced I become that some of the software currently shaping their generation is unw...
The golden age of Luncheon Vouchers ended ten yearsago. For ten years Mickey had been saying, The goldenage of Luncheon Vouchers is over. And that’s what Archieloved about O’Connell’s. Everything was...
The future's another country, man... And I still ain't got a passport.
The fear was respect, the respect, fear. If you didn't have the fear you had nothing.
Sometimes you get a flash of what you look like to other people.
Sometimes in this life you have to take risks on other people.
She lost God so smoothly and painlessly she had to wonder what she'd ever meant by the word.