The short story form allows evocation, suggestion, implication. Its potency often lies in what it does not say.
Laughter is a powerful weapon for it carries the light. To laugh is to defy the darkness. - Isobelle Carmody
Laughter is a powerful weapon for it carries the light. To laugh is to defy the darkness.
- Isobelle Carmody
If human lives be, for their very brevity, sweet, then beast lives are sweeter still... - Isobelle Carmody
If human lives be, for their very brevity, sweet, then beast lives are sweeter still...
She's forgetting,' Ellen said to Jack, plumping herself down on a chair. 'All of her life is leaking out of her. Soon there will be nothing left. - Isobelle Carmody
She's forgetting,' Ellen said to Jack, plumping herself down on a chair. 'All of her life is leaking out of her. Soon there will be nothing left.
It is better to pursue a hopeless hope than to give in to black despair. - Isobelle Carmody
It is better to pursue a hopeless hope than to give in to black despair.
Never trust a mirror,' his mother had told him. 'They never tell the truth unless you make them. - Isobelle Carmody
Never trust a mirror,' his mother had told him. 'They never tell the truth unless you make them.
The deepest wounds aren't the ones we get from other people hurting us. They are the wounds we give ourselves when we hurt other people. - Isobelle Carmody
The deepest wounds aren't the ones we get from other people hurting us. They are the wounds we give ourselves when we hurt other people.
That was what happened to laughter when you caged it. It became unbearably sad. It was worse than crying. - Isobelle Carmody
That was what happened to laughter when you caged it. It became unbearably sad. It was worse than crying.
Only humans think death is evil. But it is nature. Evil exist's only in life. There is much good and evil alloted to each life. - Isobelle Carmody
Only humans think death is evil. But it is nature. Evil exist's only in life. There is much good and evil alloted to each life.
The worst predijudice is unknowing. We think we treat others as equals, but, in our deepest heart, we regard ourselves as superior. In part, this is … - Isobelle Carmody
The worst predijudice is unknowing. We think we treat others as equals, but, in our deepest heart, we regard ourselves as superior. In part, this is …
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