Perhaps that’s how I
Perhaps that’s how I should think of them, Polly thought, the troupe and Miss Snelgrove and Trot. And Sir Godfrey. Not as lost to her, but as removed to this moment in time for safekeeping. Connie Willis
Connie Willis
I watched the entire
I watched the entire O.J. Simpson trial, and he was guilty. Connie Willis
It is my belief
It is my belief that everything you need to know about the world can be learned in a church choir. Connie Willis
He looked resigned, as
He looked resigned, as though he knew that wretched door–to where? Home? Heaven? Peace?–would never open, and at the same time he seemed resolved, ready to do his bit even though he couldn’t possibly know what sacrifices that would require. Had he been kept here, too–in a place he didn’t belong, serving in a war … Read more
One of the nastier
One of the nastier trends in library management in recent years is the notion that libraries should be ‘responsive to their patrons’. Connie Willis
The reason Victorian society
The reason Victorian society was so restricted and repressed was that it was impossible to move without knocking something over. Connie Willis
Management cares about only
Management cares about only one thing. Paperwork. They will forgive almost anything else – cost overruns, gross incompetence, criminal indictments – as long as the paperwork’s filled out properly. And in on time. Connie Willis
It was about a
It was about a girl who helps an ugly old woman who turns out to be a good fairy in disguise. Inner values versus shallow appearances. Connie Willis
I was on a
I was on a walking tour of Oxford colleges once with a group of bored and unimpressable tourists. They yawned at Balliol’s quad, T.E. Lawrence’s and Churchill’s portraits, and the blackboard Einstein wrote his E=mc2 on. Then the tour guide said, ‘And this is the Bridge of Sighs, where Lord Peter proposed (in Latin) to … Read more
That’s what the movies
That’s what the movies do. They don’t entertain us, they don’t send the message: ‘We care.’ They give us lines to say, they assign us parts: John Wayne, Theda Bara, Shirley Temple, take your pick. Connie Willis