He thought suddenly that there was some phrase, a kind of quotation, that expressed what the calendar seemed to suggest.
Ian Bytchekhas quoted3 months ago
But he still thought it self-evident that one had to do what was right; he had never learned how people could want to do otherwise; he had learned only that they did. It still seemed simple and incomprehensible to him: simple that things should be right, and incomprehensible that they weren’t. He knew that they weren’t.
Ian Bytchekhas quoted3 months ago
She liked his face—its lines were tight and firm, it did not have that look of loose muscles evading the responsibility of a shape, which she had learned to expect in people’s faces.
Ian Bytchekhas quoted2 months ago
“I have not said you needed it. But of all those whom you are saving from the storm tonight, I am the only one who will offer it.”
Ian Bytchekhas quoted2 months ago
Their work was done. For the moment, there was no future. They had earned the present.
Ian Bytchekhas quoted2 months ago
I’m going to have you at the price of more than myself: at the price of my self esteem—and I want you to know it.
Ian Bytchekhas quotedlast month
You said once that celebrations should be only for those who have something to celebrate.”
Ian Bytchekhas quotedlast month
The hours ahead, like all her nights with him, would be added, she thought, to that savings account of one’s life where moments of time are stored in the pride of having been lived.
Ian Bytchekhas quoted4 days ago
You’re the man who would know that just as an idea unexpressed in physical action is contemptible hypocrisy, so is platonic love—and just as physical action unguided by an idea is a fool’s self-fraud, so is sex when cut off from one’s code of values.
Ian Bytchekhas quoted4 hours ago
She felt his arm remain about her shoulders a moment longer than he intended her to notice.