Sugar's cheek was smooth and taut beneath the veil. It felt like one of these netted onions in a grocery store.
Sometimes he fantasised that at the end of his life, he would be shown a home movie of all the roads he had not taken, and where they would have led.
She said, 'Red, I want to learn every step of you, and dance till the end of the night.
Liam really enjoyed a good movie. He found it restful to watch people's conversations without being expected to join in. But he always felt sort of lonesome if he didn't have someone next to him to nu...
Let's say you had to report back to heaven at the end of your time on earth, tell them what your personal allotment of experience had been: wouldn't it sound like Poppy's speech? The smell of radiator...
I really believe that most people who seem scary are just sad.
I always think it’s a good sign when a man likes cats. It shows he doesn’t feel the need to be in constant control of things.
Funny how you have to picture losing a thing before you think you might value it after all.
For years, she had been in mourning for the way she had let her life slip through her fingers. Given another chance, she’d told herself, she would take more care to experience it. But lately, she was...
Either she was admirably at ease anywhere or she suffered from a total lack of discrimination; Liam couldn't decide which.
Seven.seven was when ethan had learned to ride a bicycle.macon was visited by one of those memories that dent the skin, that strain the muscles. he felt the seat of ethan's bike pressing into his hand...
Well, in my country they say that you can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.Yes, they would, Pyotr said mysteriously. He had been walking a couple of steps ahead of Kate, but now he droppe...
The disappointments seemed to escape the family’s notice, though. That was another of their quirks: they had a talent for pretending that everything was fine. Or maybe it wasn’t a quirk at all. Maybe...
Sometimes she felt like a tiny gnat, whirring around her family’s edges
She passed her on to Troy without giving them a glance; she told him she thought there was something perverted about book reviews that were longer than the books they were reviewing.
She had always assumed that when she was old, she would have total confidence, finally. But look at her: still uncertain. In many ways she was more uncertain now than she had been as a girl. And often...
People who hadn't suffered a loss yet struck me as not quite grown up.
My cousin Roger once told me, on the eve of his third wedding, that he felt marriage was addictive. Then he corrected himself. I mean early marriage, he said. The very start of a marriage. It's like a...
It’s like the grief has been covered over with some kind of blanket. It’s still there, but the sharpest edges are .. muffled, sort of. Then, ever now and then, I lift the corner of the blanket just to...
In my country they have proverb: ‘Beware against the sweet person, for sugar has no nutrition.’ This was intriguing. Kate said, Well, in my country they say that you can catch more flies with honey t...