It was late morning when he woke and found the telephone beside his bed in the hotel tolling frantically, and remembered that he had left word to be called at eleven. Sloane was snoring heavily, his clothes in a pile by his bed. They dressed and ate ...
What's the first sign of a lurking, hidden expectation you didn't know you had? Pain! People don't do what we want, things don't happen quickly enough, the weather doesn't cooperate, our bodies don't cooperate. Why are these moments so painful? Becau...
Bennett Marco: What's your name? Eugenie Rose Chaney: Eugenie. Bennett Marco: Pardon? Eugenie Rose Chaney: No kidding, I really meant it. Crazy French pronounciation and all. Bennett Marco: It's pretty. Eugenie Rose Chaney: Thank you. Bennett Marco: ...
Because instant and credible information has to be given, it becomes necessary to resort to guesswork, rumors and suppositions to fill in the voids, and none of them will ever be rectified, they will stay on in the readers' memory. How many hasty, im...
Annie clouded up. For a second, he thought she was going to erupt, and flinched. She saw that...and got control of herself with an visible effort. She took three deep breaths, each longer than the last, and her features became serene. All at once it ...
Paro porque mi voz se quiebra, porque en un instante la imagen de Beatrice que ya no puede más barre todas aquellas palabras, de Beatrice que en silencio cierra los ojos porque ya no puede más. Y no los vuelve a abrir. Y entonces todo el mundo que ...
He had gone again and, emboldened by his first successful trip, had chosen a different sort of world to enter, that of THE MONK. He had studied the book with great care and finally selected a passage that was purely descriptive. The result was the sa...
The opposite of depression is not happiness, but vitality and my life, as I write this, is vital even when sad. I may wake up sometime next year without my mind again; it is not likely to stick around all the time. Meanwhile, however, I have discover...
Anoche, mientras estaba en los brazos de Erinni, lo comprendió todo. En el fondo seguía siendo aquel chiquillo sucio y desharrapado, enfadado con el mundo por las cartas que le habían tocado en suerte, solo y traicionado, sabiéndose indigno de se...
Prince John: I sentence you to sudden, instant, and even immediate death! Marian: Oh, no. Please. Please, sire. I beg of you to spare his life. Please have mercy. Prince John: My dear, emotional lady, why should I? Marian: Because I love him, Your Hi...
[Ryan meets Alex Goran for the first time at a bar] Ryan Bingham: Are you satisfied with Maestro? Alex Goran: Yeah, I am. Ryan Bingham: A little stingy with their miles. I like Hertz. Alex Goran: No, Hertz keeps its vehicles too long. If a car has ov...
—No me gustas, Park —repitió Eleanor en un tono que, por un instante, sonó como si hablara en serio—. Yo... —su voz casi se esfumó— creo que vivo por ti. Park cerró los ojos y dejó caer la cabeza contra la almohada. —Ni siquiera pued...
¡En esta vida no la supe amar! Dame otra vida para reparar, ¡oh Dios! mis omisiones, para amarla con tantos corazones como tuve en mis cuerpos anteriores, para colmar de flores, de risas y de gloria sus instantes; para cuajar su pecho de diamantes ...
Mientras estaba tendido allí, a un paso de mí yacía un escarabajo, patas arriba, desesperado. No podía enderezarse, me habría gustado ayudarlo, era tan fácil hacerlo, bastaba un paso y un empujoncito para brindarle una ayuda efectiva. Pero lo o...
Frank T.J. Mackey: In this big game that we play, life, it's not what you hope for, it's not what you deserve, it's what you take. I'm Frank T.J. Mackey, a master of the muffin and author of the Seduce and Destroy system now available to you on video...
Recorrí pasillos y galerías en espiral pobladas por cientos, miles de tomos que parecían saber más acerca de mí que yo de ellos. Al poco, me asaltó la idea de que tras la cubierta de cada uno de aquellos libros se abría un universo infinito po...
