Como dice Blanchot, la esencia de la literatura nunca está ya aquí, siempre hay que encontrarla o inventarla de nuevo. Así vengo yo trabajando en estas notas, buscando e inventando, prescindiendo de q...

Cristo, il fato ci sapeva fare quando doveva darti una lezione, anche se ti accorgevi sempre troppo tardi di averne bisogno: aveva passato decisamente troppo tempo ripiegato su se stesso, a rimuginare...

Denial is not just a river in Egypt.

Didn't life consist of the things you did each day?

A whisper of fabric as Derek dressed. Then a hand on my waist, a light touch, tentative. I turned and Derek was right there, his face above mine, hands sliding around me as I titled my face up—We both...

Albus hugs his friend. With fierceness. They hold for a beat. Scorpius is surprised by this. Okay. Hello. Um. Have we hugged before? Do we hug?.The two boys dislocate.

Anarchy is like custard cooking over a flame; it has to be constantly stirred or it sticks and gets heavy, like government.

And all dared to brave unknown terrors, to do mighty deeds, to boldly split infinitives that no man had split before--and thus was the Empire forged.

And not only the world but humanity itself does need dragons And why is that? Chade demanded disdainfully. To keep the balance, the Fool replied. He glanced over me, and then past me, out of the windo...

Turn my back on the world... the historian repeated softly and slowly, his head moving to face the mage. Turn my back on the world! Emotion rarely marred the surface of Astinus's cold voice, but now a...

A good ruler has to learn his world's language, and that's different for every world, the language you don't hear just with your ears.

A horse blanket, Mel?I remembered what I was wearing. 'It tore in half when Hrani tried washing it. She was going to mend it. This piece was too small for a horse, but it was just right for me.'Bran l...

A man's primary duty in life is to earn his own living, but to what purpose if he did not have a wife and children?

A check girl in peach-bloom Chinese pajamas came over to take my hat and disapprove of my clothes. She had eyes like strange sins.

A library is a place to go for a reality check, a bracing dose of literature, or a true reflection of our history, whether it's a brick-and-mortar building constructed a century ago or a fanciful arra...

A mirror mirroring a mirror

A scattering of pinpoint lights shows up in the blackness ahead. A town or village straddling the highway. The indicator on the speedometer begins to lose ground. The man glances in his mirror at the...

And you, Ring-bearer,’ she said, turning to Frodo. ‘I come to you last who are not last in my thoughts. For you I have prepared this.’ She held up a small crystal phial: it glittered as she moved it,...

As Adam lost the heritage of union with God in a garden, so now Our Blessed Lord ushered in its restoration in a garden. Eden and Gethsemane were the two gardens around which revolved the fate of huma...

Bad things can happen, and often do--but they only take up a few pages of your story; and anyone can survive a few pages.