In my time we had very few words, perhaps a hundred that we used all the time, and thirty of them were synonyms for guilt.
I was seven before I realized that you could eat breakfast with your pants on.
I think this is a bodhi tree, I said, just like Buddha sat under! It’s so exciting. I’m feeling sort of enlightened just standing here. Really, I can feel ripe bodhies squishing between my toes. Joshu...
I may be small, but Im not a child to be afraid of a pretended demon speaking in tongues. Im a lapsed Christian and a pagan of convenience. The worst I can do on my conscience is cut your throat and a...
I found you here, Augustus Brine, listening to the noise of the universe, holding in your heart a spark of hope, like all fishermen, but resolved to be disappointed.
I fear you may become a lonely man, even in the company of others.
How would I feel, he thought, If I woke up and she was making love to me? Why I believe that I would be pleasantly surprised.
How we doing on the Beatitudes? Pardon me? The blesseds. We’ve got: Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness; blessed are the poor in spirit, the pure in heart, the whiners, the mee...
He had risked his freedom and his pride to buy her this, to acknowledge that part of her that everyone else seemed to want to get rid of.
Funny how the illusion of safety can make us careless.
Fue un día jodido en la ciudad de la bahía. (...). Hubo además cientos de sucesos singulares acaecidos a particulares: seres que se movían entre las sombras, voces y gritos que salían de las rejillas...
For it is written that ‘if the wise man always appears stupid, his failures do not disappoint, and his success gives pleasant surprise.
Fine, fuck it, Clay said, tossing the plate into the yard. The chicken parts bounced nicely, breading themselves with a light coating of sand, ants, and dried grass. When did chicken become like pluto...
Fine, as the tailor said to the broke and naked knight, suit yourself.
Evolution doesn’t really have a destination. It’s just dicking around with possibilities.
Drool has sprouted an erection. Let’s ask him what he’s thinking about. Had his way with a knotted oak on the way here. A right spectacular tree-shagging it was, too. Knocked down enough acorns to fee...
Do not bonk the Juliette
Das Leben war Handeln, es gab keinen Frieden diesseits des Grabes.
Charlie said, Mr. Mainheart was pretty broken up. Well, I guess so, Lily said. He married a complete fucktard.
Charlie guardò con più attenzione il roditore che la bimba aveva sbattuto sul vassoio, quasi volesse renderne più tenera la carne. La testolina sembrava fradicia. In bocca. Se lo è messo in bocca. Aff...