But characters in stories DO NOT just slip away! God takes us when He thinks it's time and a writer is God to the people in a story, he made them up just like God made US up and no one can get hold of God to make Him explain... (查看原文)
The climate inside her, he had come to discover, was like springtime in the Midwest. She was a woman full of tornadoes waiting to happen, and if he had been a farmer observing a sky which looked the way Annie's face looked right now, he would have at once gone to collect his family and herd them into the storm celler. Her brow was too white. Her nostrils flared regularly, like the nostrils of an animal scenting fire. Her hands had begun to spring limberly open and then snatch closed again, catching air and squashing it. (查看原文)
She walked back and forth faster, cutting the air with her solid body.
Psychotics can cope in the world - after a fashion - and sometimes, as I think you well know, they get away with some very nasty shit. But there's a borderline between managable and unmanagable psychotics. You're getting closer to that line every day ... and part of you knows it. (查看原文)
This book, he began to understand, was a gothic novel, and thus was more dependent on plot than on situation. The challenges were constantl. It was not just a queation of Can You? to begin the book - for the first time in years, it was Can You? almost every day...and he was finding he could. (查看原文)
