You really think so? said Robie. These are guys. All guys think girls talk to each other. They’ll come back for the kid for sure. You’re just tryin’ to scare me, said Emma smugly. Reel shrugged. We do...
You can’t live your life trying to make people understand something they don’t want to understand.
Who’s taking care of you? Them, for now, said Julie, indicating Robie and Vance. Is she in protective
When you lie a rush of adrenaline to the capillaries in the nose causes it to itch. So people who are lying tend to involuntarily scratch it. - John Puller
This guy had taken great care to not allow even a piece of his skin to be observed. They didn't even know if he was black or white. Although most mass murderers were white. And male.
Things sometimes did not work out. Even if you wanted them to more than anything else. You couldn’t will someone to love you back. You had to move on.
They’re both black. I don’t like to cut perfectly fine coffee with cream or sugar.
There’s a chromosome that goes haywire when you turn thirteen. It commands you to live in filth
There is some good in this world, and it’s worth fighting for. — J. R. R. Tolkien
Then you take her without reservation, disclaimer, parental demands, or otherwise. You take her as she is with all her faults, weaknesses, idiosyncrasies, and requirements. You take her without qualif...
The place smelled of sweat and burned coffee and the passage of time, which held its own moldy stink.
The Bureau was still behind the times on technology,
That’s how they generated Bruno’s
She wrote the phone number down on another slip of paper, rushed into the bathroom, crumpled up the letter, and flushed it down the toilet. For one paralyzing moment she envisioned federal law enforce...
No, a nightmare is what’s coming for the rest of these assholes.
Maybe that's how the world was now, thought Dan. Everyone was so wrapped up in his or her own little world that no one ever really saw anything anymore.
Males. You have to lead them to the water and then show them how to slurp it.
Lots of people don’t talk about their military service. I bet heroes do. No. A pretty accurate rule of thumb is the people who did the most talk about it the least. The blowhards are the ones who did...
In the legal arena, she could go anywhere. The trouble
Important man, they say. Lot of important men in this world. But they die just like the rest of us. God’s way of making life fair.