It was an emergency! Seth blurted. Read my lips - emergency reading - not some demented idea of fun. If I was starving, I would eat asparagus. If somebody held a gun to my head, I would watch a soap o...

Isabelle waved a hand. No need to worry, big brother. Nothing happened. Of course, she added as Alex's shoulders relaxed, I was totally passed-out drunk, so he could really have done whatever he wante...

In the end everything will be okay. But hurdles have to be jumped through first.

If everybody minded their own business, the world would go around a great deal faster than it does.

If I can't suck your milkshake through a straw, it's not a milkshake--it's a glass of ice cream.

I loved her as much as ever and I still did not know how much that was.

I am so tired - so tired of being of being whirled on through all these phases of my life, in which nothing abides by me, no creature, no place; it is like the circle in which the victims of earthly p...

He left the room, and closeted himself in the dark, buzzing space where he raised his wasps and plotted the courses of heavenly bodies.

He glanced up at her and somehow he’d come back to himself, contained all that terrible sorrow and anger and fear, enough to make ten strong men fall down like babes. Maximus held it all inside of him...

Crecemos leyendo cosas de piratas, de vaqueros, de naves espaciales y cosas así, y cuando te crees que el mundo está lleno de todo eso, van y te dicen que en verdad son todo ballenas muertas, bosques...

Chapter Fourteen: Teresa So not unnatural at all, Holden said, tipping a little more wine from the bottle into the doctor’s glass.Meaningless term, Cortázar said. Humans arose inside nature. We’re nat...

But there were too many points at which the other self could invade the self he wanted to preserve, and there were too many forms of invasion: certain words, sounds, lights, actions his hands or feet...

But that is what islands are for; they are places where different destinies can meet and intersect in the full isolation of time.

And I was normally a pretty emotional person. In any given day, I experienced a hundred different things like I was trying ice cream flavors.

A block from his hotel, Gary cleared his throat. I thought you said going back to my room might be dangerous. Life is dangerous, Gary, Gregori said softly. You are , remember? Savannah’s laughter rang...

There was no point in sighing after what I could not have. It only distracted me from what I did have.

So if we were apart I might stop wanting to be around you? she teased. If I had known it was that simple, I would have sat outside most of the time. He caressed her silky hair. he broke off the thoug...

And all your future lies beneath your hat.

No dream is ever chased alone.

I'm very much aware of the dangers of becoming a cliche. Mr. Anger, someone who gets meaner, angrier on record.