A kind of joy came upon him, as if borne in on a summer breeze. He dimly recalled that he had been thinking of failure--as if it mattered. It seemed to him now that such thoughts were mean, unworthy of what his life had been. Dim presences gathered a...
Do you ever think about the ocean?" Nick asked me. "What about it?" I said. "Like what could live down there? Like how there's as much life down there as up here? Maybe more?" "God Lives Underwater," said someone. "That's the name of a band. They're ...
The amazing thing is that every atom in your body came from a star that exploded. And, the atoms in your left hand probably came from a different star than your right hand. It really is the most poetic thing I know about physics: You are all stardust...
The great cause of the new Republican intake is the reduction of the deficit but to anyone seeking evidence of sincere attempts at deficit-reduction the evidence is baffling. The Republicans showed before Christmas that they would seek to reduce the ...
[Colin confronts Billy on the rooftop] Billy Costigan: FREEZE! [points gun at Colin] Colin Sullivan: Hey! Hey! Hey! Billy Costigan: Put your fucking hands up! Colin Sullivan: Put the fucking gun down! Put the gun... put the gun down, alright? I came ...
Betty Elms: She's letting me stay here while she's working on a movie that's being made in Canada. But I guess you already know that. Well, I couldn't afford a place like this in a million years... unless, of course, I'm discovered and become a movie...
Ichabod Crane: [Studies the horse tracks surrounding Jonathan Masbath's dead body, and takes giant footsteps] The stride is gigantic! The attacker rode Masbath down, turned his horse, and came back. Came back to claim the head. [Takes a small bottle ...
Archie Henderson has won no awards, written no books and never played any representative sport. He was an under-11 tournament-winning tennis player as a boy, but left the game when he discovered rugby where he was one of the worst flyhalves he can re...
How sad, he thought, that desire found new objects but did not abate, that when it came to longing there was no end.
People often believed they were safer in the light, thinking monsters only came out at night. But safety – like light – is a façade.
I never knew what language they'd lapse into when fucked - Urdu or Telugu or a mix of both (only the techies came in English).
Yes, the wind came up--" Mrs. Sharpe began. She paused. "And changed us all," Petra said softly.
When I first saw you, you were like . . . ' He shakes his head, tugs gently on my hair. 'A rainbow. I always knew you came with a storm.
Innards came out crossed and complex, like a tumble of plus and minus signs--the equation of human life.
We all reconstruct our past because we wish to see how our present came to be our present - do we not?
Once in a golden hour I cast to earth a seed. Up there came a flower, The people said, a weed.
I now know how your anger came from skeletons that rattled in your heart and you couldn't escape them.
I didn't know the demons that walked across your memory. They came from the dust when you were at peace in your grave.
Dirck's mind hadn't stopped racing since the arrest. Why were the only dreams that came true nightmares?
Nothing said in words ever came out quite even. Things in words got twisted and ran together, instead of staying straight and fitting together.
Other flowers came at the end of the summer, but by then the winter sadness had already dissipated, and the effect of the blooms was not the same.
