We had a lot of argumants like that. Because I often thought I couldn’t take any more. And your father is really pacient but I’m not, I get cross, even though I don’t mean too. And by the end we stopped talking to each other very much because we knew it would always end up in an argumant and it would go nowere, And I felt realy lonley.
Never trust a man who doesn’t like animals. That’s my rule.
And I think that there are so many things just in one house that it would take years to think about all of them properly.
And all I could see would be stars. And stars are the places where the molecules that life is made of were constructed billions of years ago. For example, all the iron in your blood which stops you from being anemic was made in a star.
Think about today. Think about things that have happened. Especially about good things that have happened.
All those other lives. You never did get to lead them.
She understood now. You got married in spite of your wedding not because of it.
Your children never really grew up. Thirty year’s on and they still behaved like five-year old’s. One minute they were your best friend. Then you said the wrong thing and they went off like firecrackers.
Siobhan said that I should write something I would want to read myself.
But she wasn’t really listening, because underneath it all ran the fear that it had nothing to do with good fortune, that he had earned this, and she resented him because she could have done it, too, if she’d applied herself properly, become a lawyer, moved to Canada, run a business, and what she saw when she looked at Richard was not his success but her own failure.
Everyone in their little worlds.
Water purling between the rocks, weed under the surface like green hair in the wind.
Maybe it was the heart which punished one with such exquisite accuracy.
Christopher explains that he ranks the day according to the number and color of the cars he sees on his way to school. Three red cars in a row equal a Good Day, and five equal a Super Good Day. Four yellow cars in a row make it a Black Day. On Black Days Christopher refuses to speak to anyone and sits by himself at lunch.
It’s very nice of you to come and say hello.” I didn’t reply to this either because Mrs. Alexander was doing what is called chatting, where people say things to each other which aren’t questions and answers and aren’t connected.
Because adults forgot how porous that border was, the ease with which you could summon monsters and find treasure in any basement. Besides, adults talked to themselves. Was that any more rational?
Life is a cowpat sandwich Jimbo.′ he sighed ’with a very thin bread and lots of filling.
The police asked us whether we wanted counselling. We said we’d prefer a hot supper.
People believe in God because the world is very complicated and they think it is very unlikely that anything as complicated as a flying squirrel or the human eye or a brain could happen by chance. But they should think logically and if they thought logically they would see that they can only ask this question because it has already happened and they exist.
He had always seen his self-sufficiency as an admirable quality, a way of not imposing upon other people, but he could see now that it was an insult to those close to you.