In America, Walt Disney opened an amusement park.And in Florence, someone was savaging the remnants of a Tuscan nobleman’s family.
A day doesn't go by when I don't look at them, she said. I can't have them up on the kitchen refrigerator or in a frame in the bedroom--I just can't do it, I just can't run into them casually when I'm...
Seriously, the banker went on, what do you investigate? I have a feeling you do more than find stray kittens and bring home lost babies.Murder.
With age comes acumen. With experience comes insight.
A smart girl is nobody's pushover and nobody's foe. A smart girl is both sword and smile.
Though angels were easy to finds in cemeteries, she said that she didn't especially care for funereal angels and tombstone cherubs -- she wanted her angels among the living, not watching over the alre...
During the war, I promised the dead I would never forget them. I stared at them, barely able to move myself. Pretended I was one of them. To this day I can recall the light in the ruins.
So you’re positive the killer is a man.Yes, I think my gender can take responsibility for this one. Women don’t cut out other women’s hearts.We can.
This was the pain that gouged out great holes in the soul, hollowing out self-esteem and cratering a person's self respect
Now, the separation between depression and suicide is more crevasse than chasm.
A term came to her that they used on occasion at the shelter: the double bind...They used the expression in much the same way that they would use a term like catch-22.
You want to know the definition of a consultant? A guy who borrows your watch to tell you what time it is.
And though some days it is very hard, I try not to live for the future. And I try not to dream of the past.
When it seems you have nothing at all to live for, death is not especially frightening.
When the sun is strong and the air is warm, however, we shout greetings to one another down the lengths of long driveways and from the windows of our cars as we pass; we hold our heads high as we walk...
We were too young- and the ground too muddy- for our small part of the earth to move.
She needed water, but it would take a tsunami to avert the hangover that awaited. She needed Advil, but she feared the red pills that she popped like M&M’s at moments like this were distant. They were...
Cerulean.
She didn't care so much whether the world would ever forgive her people; but she did hope that someday, somehow, she would be able to forgive herself.
She closed her eyes and tried desperately to swim through the mist that enveloped her memories. She was near here and then she wasn’t. She was whole and then she was wounded. Forever scarred. And in b...
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