There’s something ugly underneath. No dream without the nightmare.
A little comb to brush her luxurious red hair.
Were measured by the intentions behind them. But the truth is, they’re measured by their consequences.
Until everything topples, we have no idea what we actually have, how precarously and perfectly it all hangs together.
Their affair had been three of the most intense, reckless, terrifying, happy, alive months of his life. Like how he imagined being on heroin felt if the high never ended, if every syringe didn’t also...
Stu, where you at? Up here in the library. You hurt?
She took me in when I was lost. When the world stopped making sense.
She took him by the hand and led him over.
Pope just smiled. Don’t even think about leaving town.
Just dozens and dozens of black windows into devastation.
It’s also the manifestation of everyone’s existential question: Am I who I was supposed to be? Is this the life I was meant to be living?
In high school, in college, she was encouraged again and again to find her passion-a reason to get out of bed and breathe. In her experience, few people ever found that raison d'etre. What teachers an...
If memory is unreliable, if the past and the present can simply change without warning, then fact and truth will cease to exist. How do we live in a world like that?
I whisper, Now what? And he says, You wouldn’t believe me if I told you.
I feel like I have little to give.
Her smile reminded Theresa of a movie star smile—toothy and wide, and if you stared too hard at it, not quite real.
He thought of all the quaint Victorian houses in Wayward Pines and of all the families who lived inside them. How many residents—inmates—kept up a strong, carefree countenance during the day, but then...
He reached in, grabbed a bag of carrots and a small loaf of bread, crammed them down into the side pockets of his jeans.
He came to lying on his back with sunlight pouring down into his face and the murmur of running water close by. There was a brilliant ache in his optic nerve, and a steady, painless throbbing at the b...
Have five seconds before we open fire. Jack opened his door and stepped out into the highway.