There was darkness everywhere human beings gathered.
The twelve burros crane their scrawny necks in his direction when Brady emerges from the merc. He reaches into his greatcoat, pulls out a tin of Star Navy tobacco, and shoves a chaw between lips and g...
The sun was gone, and in the wake of its passing, mountain ranges stood profiled against the evening sky like a misshapen saw blade. There was nothing to see of the pine forest a thousand feet below....
The punctuations of silence weren’t completely uncomfortable. Ethan was beginning to understand that in Wayward Pines these periods of shared quiet were normal, expected, inevitable. Some people, by n...
The most dangerous adversary you’ll ever face is an opponent who’s skilled with a knife. Avoid these confrontations at all costs.
The hurdler hit the sidewalk midstride and accelerated, dressed all in black, boots pounding the street. He carried a machete whose wet blade glimmered under the glancing beam of his headlamp, running...
That’s what it is to be human—the beauty and the pain, each meaningless without the other.
Something niggled her. A seemingly small fact she was overlooking. A rodent scurried through some leaves nearby. A mosquito whined in her ear. What was it? No flashlight. That was it. Fitch hadn’t bro...
She was broken and lonely, and beyond everything else, she missed her husband so much that even the uncertain possibility of a life with him—with their family reunited—might be worth signing everythin...
Saint Augustine said it perfectly back in the fourth century: What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.
Pope smiled. You’re thinking all wrong, boy. There’s no such thing as law or government inside this room. It’s just you and me. I am the one and only authority in your little world, whose borders are...
People leave. They die. Their dwellings crumble. That’s the storyline, the only plot there will ever be.
No, what do you call that? I call that you-ain’t-gotta-do-shit-ever-again money. I call that living-right-for-the-rest-of-your-life money. Don’t tell me some part of you hasn’t always dreamed of robbi...
Management: Thank you for the support and counsel. Angela Cheng Caplan and Joel VanderKloot: You’re rock stars. So grateful to have you in my corner. A very special thanks to Jacque Ben-Zekry for a wo...
It will occur to him months from now that if this had been a movie, he wouldn’t have done it. Wouldn’t have sunk to the level of this monster. But the ugly truth is it never even crosses Ethan’s mind...
It was easier to accept what could not be changed than to risk everything and seek out the unknown.
It has altered, Leven says, but only slightly. Nitrogen and oxygen, thank God, are still the main components. But the makeup is now one percent more oxygen, one percent less nitrogen. Greenhouse gases...
Is this what you want? To drop yourself into a still-life painting of a memory because life has broken your heart?
If you find yourself in a fair fight, you obviously didn’t plan right.
I heard something up ahead.