His stories were not always new, but there was in the telling of them a special kind of magic. His voice could roll like thunder or hush down into a zepherlike whisper. He could imitate the voices of a dozen men at once; whistle so like a bird that t...
I was recalling that other world in which it had thrilled me, in a way, the surprise of thinking that I could be a person who would betray Daniel. Now I wondered if Daniel could surprise himself, could surprise me, by being such a person too. Would h...
As I clung to the chaparral that day, attempting to patch up my bleeding finger, terrified by every sound that the bull was coming back, I considered my options. There were only two and they were essentially the same. I could go back in the direction...
I don’t know where I’m going on this path. I don’t know what I’m doing with my life. You had to be lost, before you could be found. These are the truths. You had to be confused, before you could find clarity; you had to suffer, before you cou...
I thought I saw how stories of this kind could steal past a certain inhibition which had paralysed much of my own religion in childhood. Why did one find it so hard to feel as one was told one ought to feel about God or the sufferings of Christ? I th...
I knew I was a grain of sand in the vast desert that never ended and he was a sparkling star in the sky. I was a fish who couldn’t breathe in air and had to stay in dark waters forever while he was a majestic bird who soared so high that he barely ...
The world could have been great if only people had been more useful.
A blind man sat behind a pile of stones and thought that nobody could see him.
If all seeds that fall were to grow, then no one could follow the path under the trees.
The fool castrates himself in order that he could accuse his pregnant wife of adultery.
Truth came to market but could not be sold; however, we buy lies with ready cash.
When the stars were right, They could plunge from world to world through the sky; but when the stars were wrong, They could not live.
How could they think women a recreation? Or the repetition of bodies of steady interest? Only the ignorant or the busy could.
We...we could be friends.' We COULD be rare specimens of an exotic breed of dancing African elephants, but we're not. At least, I'M not.
Etta, it could be everything, it could be nothing, what you’re making up. You shouldn’t let that bother you.
You are so beautiful, I could eat you,” he said. And it was true. Her smile was as intoxicating as the wine. And he could eat her.
No mortal man could frighten him, no more than the darkness could, nor the bones of his soul, the grey and grisly bones of his soul.
I have all the books I could need, and what more could I need than books?
They should put their clothes on if they could find them which might be difficult in the darkness. He decided that could wait until dawn.
I could not remember my first kiss, but I could have told you Charlotte would be my last.
We could do it, you know." "What?" "Leave the district. Run off. Live in the woods. You and I, we could make it.
