…how it would be nice if, for every sea waiting for us, there would be a river, for us. And someone -a father, a lover, someone- able to take us by the hand and find...

I was frightened of so many things, in my vanity, that ultimately i couldn’t protect myself any other way. Try not to be like that, okay? Be sure to keep your tummy warm, try to...

I have an acute sense of delicacy. Naturally I am prejudiced in favour of virtue.(“The Accursed Cordonnier”)

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

Le sommeil est un chemin qui mène à la soupe du lendemain.

I’ve swallowed fish-eyes wholelike an endoscope.I once ate a trout cooked inside a dolphin. Felt like a shark eating another shark,inside the cold-blooded womb of yet another shark.

…this refinement and delicacy were what Cale adored; but Cale had been beaten into shape, hammered in dreadful fires of fear and pain. How could she be with him for long? A secret part of...

If a good system of agriculture, unrivaled manufacturing skill, a capacity to produce whatever can contribute to either convenience or luxury, schools established in every village for teaching reading, writing, and arithmetic, the general practice...