from bel canto |
page 261
It did not occur to him to leave, as it does not occur to a dog to leave once he has been trained to stay in the yard. He only feels blessed for the little freedom he is given. &...
Posted by on Thu, 08 Nov 2007 17:22:00 GMT |
from bel canto |
Page 250
Love is a rebellious bird that no one can tame&
Posted by on Thu, 08 Nov 2007 17:21:00 GMT |
from ’bel canto’ |
page 207
He could see in his face a love that was so obviously displayed that she must already know everything there was to know about it. He was so close to her then that they owned ever...
Posted by on Thu, 08 Nov 2007 17:19:00 GMT |
from bel canto |
Page 86
There they were, steadily producing insulin as a matter of course while another man died without it so that he could stay with the woman he loved. Each asked himself if he would have do...
Posted by on Wed, 07 Nov 2007 10:48:00 GMT |
from bel canto |
Page 165
"If we put a gun to her head she would sing all day."
"Try it first with a bird," General Benjamin said gently to Alfredo. "Like our soprano, they have no capacity to understand author...
Posted by on Wed, 07 Nov 2007 10:48:00 GMT |
from bel canto |
Page 4
In a different time, such a production would have seemed too complicated for a child, but this was only a handful of years after the war and children then were much more likely to unders...
Posted by on Wed, 07 Nov 2007 10:46:00 GMT |
from "the mermaid chair" |
Page 305
In the night I dreamed of whales thrusting their sickly bodies onto the shore to die willful deaths. At first I stood there bewildered, screaming for them to go back to the ocean...
Posted by on Mon, 05 Nov 2007 10:29:00 GMT |
from "the mermaid chair" |
Page 322
I felt amazed at the choosing one had to do, over and over, a million times daily choosing love, then choosing it again, how loving and being in love could be so different.
Posted by on Mon, 05 Nov 2007 10:29:00 GMT |
from "the mermaid chair" |
Page 229
What if his being here wasn't about making peace with god who was both here and not here but more about finding some kind of immunity from life? What if he'd mixed up enlightenment wit...
Posted by on Mon, 05 Nov 2007 10:28:00 GMT |
from "the mermaid chair" |
Page 179
"I'm just saying I know what it's like to love somebody you think you shouldn't be loving," Kat went on. "There probably isn't a woman alive who doesn't know what that's like. &n...
Posted by on Mon, 05 Nov 2007 10:27:00 GMT |
