She's a nice girl, Tennessee said as a way of saying goodbye to them, as a way of saying thank you and I'm sorry, as a way of saying, I wish I had never let you go and I wish we had never met.
She was shocked by how bad he looked. Cancer really was the devil’s handshake.
She was his wife in every way that mattered and that would save her.
She has a point, Cousins said. He never would have stood back here making sandwiches, though he felt he could use a sandwich, that he wanted one, and so he poured himself another drink.
People souldn't be allowed to decide that they wished to remain a hostage
People simultaneously wanted to kill them, believed that they had almost killed them, and were afraid of being killed by them.
Other CEOs were shown fly-fishing in Scottish rivers or piloting their own Learjets into Helsinki. Mr. Hosokawa was photographed at home in the leather chair he sat in when he listened, a Nansei EX-12...
Only a few of us are going to be willing to break our own hearts by trading in the living beauty of imagination for the stark disappointment of words. This
Ninety percent of what I know about fiction writing I learned that year. Write it out. Tell the truth. Stack up the pages. Learn to write by writing.
Messner sighed and handed him the phone. One minute. I swear it, Simon said. He was already dialing the number. The phone rang five times and then the answering machine picked up the line. It was his...
Maybe once he wished I was his daughter, because it was plain that my news was hard for him to hear.
Love is a rebellious bird that no one can tame
Listen she said, everything ends, every single relationship you will ever have in your lifetime is going to end.... I'll die, you'll die, you'll get tired of each other. You don't always know how it's...
Life itself had been holy. We had been brought forth from nothing to see the face of God and in his life Father Sullivan had seen it miraculously for eighty-eight years. Why wouldn't it stand to reaso...
Kitty stopped the cart and put in two three-packs of paper towels. Sale. Sabine nodded. Was $2.49 a good price? To know if paper towels were a deal this time, you’d have to remember what they cost las...
Just do me a favor first—go find the baby. Find out who has her. If I go out there now everybody’s going to want to start talking and it’ll be midnight before I find her. Take a quick walk around, wou...
It’s a wonderful thing to find a great teacher, but you also have to find him or her at a time in life when you’re able to listen to, trust, and implement the lessons you receive.
It's like this enormous tree had just crashed through the house and I was picking up the leaves so no one would notice what had happened.
It was an awful thing to never really have the chance to hold somebody until she was dead.
If you've had good gin on a hot day in Southern California with the people you love, you forget Nebraska. The two things cannot coexist. The stronger, better of the two wins.