Lord, it’s only been six months since the last time I was a total jerk, thought Reeve. Am I going to be a total jerk again?
It's been one nightmare after another, Christina thought. Pretty soon I won't be able to keep track of them all.
She had never had a daydream that dreamed itself, like nightmares. That crawled out of her brain like a creature of the dark. A daymare.
The sea can smack the rocks like a hand smacking a cheek. It can hiss or gurgle or even kiss. But when it wants, it can go quiet. 'And then', said Anya Rothrock, 'you can hear the voices of the drowne...
But sometimes, in tight corners, when your back is against the wall and the world is against you, you have to fight back in unexpected ways.
I wonder why we always deny love. I remember in middle school, if you were accused of the crime of loving, you screamed denials constantly and stopped ever even looking at the boy you were accused of...
Her eye was caught by a pile of red hair on the seat next to her. She had forgotten about the stupid little girl. She could not remember what her plans had been. What was she supposed to do with this...
I thought of the parable of the prodigal son. We had made merry for the beloved child's return too - but what happens when the beloved child doesn't say she's sorry? The parable doesn't talk about tha...
Summer. That long lovely world of slow days and late nights, warm air and friendly sun.
You must love teaching', one mother said to Mr. Shevvington. 'Yes indeed. I think of each class as a zoo.' He laughed..'Twenty-six to a cage.
Her laughter began low and quiet then rose in pitch and flickered all over the room, like blood splatter.
Foster children could pack quickly. Every move Matt had ever made took only minutes, whereas when real people moved, they spent weeks getting ready, filling huge vans and leaving a trail of cardboard...
She stared at the dark shimmer of glass that faced the street. The Clares never pulled curtains. They were comftorable with the dark. But there was another kind of dark. The darkness of minds full of...
They reached a river where the water was open, seething and churning over rocks.We’re going to cross that? thought Mercy. It’s too wide and deep. We’ll drown.Tannhahorens took off his tobacco necklace...
Did he think Brendan planned to snatch the laptop and throw it down a crevasse in a glacier?
Crush. It's a word for something temporary. Something that weights you down and makes it hard to breathe. I don't have a crush on you now, I thought. I just plain love you. Good old reliable love.
We will freeze to death, thought Mercy. Why go to the trouble of carrying a hundred pairs of moccasins when they won’t make a fire?Her Indian knelt and, with his bare hands, scooped out a hole in a sn...
You mean I can’t chain him to the bumper of my truck and drag him through the city?
Rents were high, according to the ads in real estate agents’ windows, but not killer high.
Listen to the sea...it sounds like a coffin being dragged over broken glass.
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