manzanilla |
In that quiet village, stacked three thousand feet above the sea against the southwestern slopes of the Sierra de Guadarrama, the province of Madrid, and the kingdom of New Castile laid out barren at ...
Posted by Ryan on Thu, 12 Jul 2007 02:13:00 PST |
Redemption |
PRINCE SERGIUS (after a pause): I must confess that you bewilder me. You with your gifts and charm and really au fond - a wonderful sense of what's right. How could you have permitted yourself to plun...
Posted by Ryan on Wed, 02 May 2007 05:21:00 PST |
Vida sin amigo, muerte sin testigo |
-All right, listen, I have ideas but why should I opress you with them? It's your work, and something like writing is very private, isn't it? How. . .how fragile situations are. But not tenuous. Delic...
Posted by Ryan on Sun, 26 Nov 2006 04:31:00 PST |
Superbad |
VII.
Me: Yes, I do love you. But not the way you need me to. I think that sometimes you're too afraid.
Girl in Bar: I was afraid of that.
Me: Not everything is a joke. That's why I wish you wouldn't t...
Posted by Ryan on Fri, 01 Sep 2006 01:48:00 PST |
The Lover |
Very early in my life it was too late. It was already too late when I was eighteen. Between eighteen and twenty-five my face took off in a new direction. I grew old at eighteen. I don't know if it's t...
Posted by Ryan on Fri, 11 Aug 2006 10:50:00 PST |
Dreams From Bunker Hill |
The manager of the Filipino hotel was glad to see me. It was no surprise when he said that my room was unoccupied. It was my kind of room. I deserved it - the smallest, most uninviting room in Los Ang...
Posted by Ryan on Tue, 01 Nov 2005 02:51:00 PST |
'So you've had a threesome!' |
She was quiet.
'Erin! You dog.'
More quiet.
'Who with?'
Nothing.
'Tell me. You have to tell me.'
A sigh. 'It was nothing. It was weird. Forget it. You see anymore places to stay? On the map? I don't w...
Posted by Ryan on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST |
high-IQ moron, fucked-out eyes |
'I know you must. Well, this is like an appeal. I'd like to have your good opinion.''Are you depressed, Wallace, when things go wrong like this?''Less and Less.''You mean you're improving,' said ...
Posted by Ryan on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST |
The Plot Against America |
"I said, 'Alvin, I've known you since you were born. You're a fighter. You don't give up. You've got your father's strength. Your father could take the hardest blow and still keep going. So could your...
Posted by Ryan on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST |
'It was a dream,' |
said John quietly. 'Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.'
'How pleasant then to be insane!'
'So I'm told,' said John gloomily. 'I don't know any longer. At any rate, let us...
Posted by Ryan on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST |
