Did he also instruct you not to bother calling me ahead of time to let me know the feds would be rolling up in my world? Or was that all you? You think I had some obligation to— Courtesy, Ethan. Court...
Because as fucked as everything is, there is no place I’d rather be than with this Daniela, this Charlie. If one tiny thing were different, they wouldn’t be the people I love.
A monitor, processor, and keyboard stood separately on the floor — an old Tandy 1000 with the letters and numbers worn completely off the keys.
Ésa es la belleza de la juventud. Hay una levedad que permea en todo porque todavía no has tomado esas malditas decisiones, no te has comprometido con ningún sendero, y el camino delante de ti se abre...
Warm, the sky above a deep and cloudless cobalt. The man checked the pockets of his slacks, and then of his single-breasted coat. No wallet. No money clip. No ID. No keys. No phone. Just a small Swiss...
Two things will stop them—Christmas and tragedy. He dismounts his albino steed, the horse’s pinked nostrils flaring, dirty mane matted with ice. The single-rig saddle is snow-crusted as well, its leat...
There’s a stunning quality to the light as it moves toward evening—polarized and golden—that I can only describe as loss. Robert Frost’s gold that cannot stay.
You want to leave. Huh. Keep in mind everything I just said, and now consider that you're the only person who's successfully flown that thing. You're in possession of critical knowledge that we've spe...
You know, you remind me of my younger brother. I miss that kid, so much that I sometimes regret killing him.
You can reign in hell here on the outside, or serve in heaven, back in Pines.
Yeah, my attitude’s been, Fuck the Forest Service. I’ve been coming up from Arizona every year to spend time in this canyon, do a little elk hunting on the side. But it’s a real thrill to meet you, La...
Where were you when I laid the earth’s foundation? Tell me, if you understand. Who marked off its dimensions? Surely you know! Who stretched a measuring line across it? On what were its footings set,...
What a strange, amazing life.
What a miracle it is to have people to come home to every day. To be loved. To be expected. I thought I appreciated every moment, but sitting here in the cold, I know I took it all for granted. And ho...
What I told you is the truth. Really? You want to keep heading down that path? Because I went to the pub. Pope drummed his fingers on the tabletop. They don’t even have a female bartender on staff, an...
Were measured by the intentions behind them. But the truth is, they’re measured by their consequences.
Was there even a point to the creation of books and art when humanity lived on the precipice of extinction?
Thudding racket of the rock crushers pulverizing ore. The sound of the stamps in operation is the sound of money being made, and only two things will stop them—Christmas and tragedy.
Throw a ball with a person in whose eyes you can do no wrong. He doesn’t see your failings yet. He looks at you with pure love and it won’t last, so you revel in it while it’s here.
They didn’t live anymore in a world where life was to be colorful and celebrated. Life had become something you clung to, that you bit down hard on against the pain, like the rubber block in a session...