"Thick smoke like a herd of black horses was rising over the massive building and being blown around by the wind."

"It was only a phrase that went from mouth to mouth and was never quite swallowed."

"And everything would be different, different."

"If an animal has to be sacrificed when a new bridge is built, what will it take to build a whole new world?"

"To tell the truth, this was one of the few cases in which she had not told him just what she was thinking. Usually, s…"

"I couldn't get to sleep. The book lay nearby. A thin object on the divan. So strange. Between two cardboard covers we…"

"The days were heavy and sticky. All identical, one the same as the other. Soon they would even get rid of their one r…"

"Can one move an empire as if it were a house?"

"I became familiar with literature before I knew freedom, so that it was literature that led me to liberty, not the ot…"