Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth.
If I've done my work well, I vanish completely from the scene. I believe it is invasive of the work when you know too much about the writer.
Usually I am on a work for a long stretch, until a moment arrives when the air of the arbitrary vanishes, and the paint falls into positions that feel destined.
Within five minutes of leaving the reunion, I'd undone the double wrapping and eaten all six rugelach, each a snail of sugar-dusted pastry dough, the cinnamon-lined chambers microscopically studded with midget raisins and chopped walnuts. By rapidly ...
Lead's erasing then vanishing Banished from whatever it is they're drinking and it's cleaned Running from the pitcher as if it's her fantasy
The power to concentrate was the most important thing. Living without this power would be like opening one’s eyes without seeing anything.
We persist and linger longer than we think, leaving traces of ourselves wherever we go. If you take that away, then we all simply vanish.
Your soul is the priestess of memory, selecting, sifting, and ultimately gathering your vanishing days toward presence.
Keep in mind that imagination is at the heart of all innovation. Crush or constrain it and the fun will vanish.
Run. Flee. Fuck off. Vanish from my presence and take the foul stench of your sordid secret with you.
The eyes were large and gray and in a certain light looked soft, gentle, and even innocent. Then the light would change, the innocence would vanish, and the eyes looked like year-old ice.
The eyes were larger and gray and in a certain light looked soft, gentle, and even innocent. Then the light would change, the innocence would vanish, and the eyes looked like year-old ice.
I reached for her through the darkness, but she was gone. Like dominoes folding over, the rest of the mirrors collapsed down on top of me. The impact caused the world around me to vanish.
Like dew I was born Like dew I vanish ..and all that I have ever done Is but a dream Within a dream
The trees called to me, urging me to abandon what I knew and vanish into the oncoming night. It was a desire that had been tugging me with disconcerting frequency these days.
Especially difficult when the first and best unconscious move of a dedicated liar is to persuade himself he's sincere. And once he's sincere, all deception vanishes.
I no longer believe in love," she said bitterly. "When people claim to have lost their heart, it's usually only their wits that have vanished.
...never would I trade for some new shape that laurel I was first, in whose sweet shade all other pleasures vanish in my heart.
It was the first time she'd discovered something she really didn't want to find, and she didn't know what to do once she'd found it.
Unlike Elise, who could discover parts of a person they didn't even know were absent, you specialized in tangible, but that, I feared, was only a matter of time.
It's not because I don't want to hurt Delia's feelings. It's because when she is bruised, I'm the one who aches.
