You had to take life as it came. It gave no quarter, spared no feelings. Limited no pain. Put no ceiling on happiness.
You can’t command men in battle if they like you, Bob, his father had said. They have to have equal parts fear and respect.
You can’t command men in battle if they like you, Bob, his father had said. They have to have equal parts fear and respect. And I would say fear is even more important than respect. Respect only gets...
Whatever was hurting the lady, he simply didn’t have the tools to help her. Apparently, a deep friendship didn’t cut it with matters of a wounded soul.
What grade does she teach? Eighth. Where kids make the jump from nice, innocent kids to something a lot more complicated and emotional drama runs deep and hormones are out of control. Some days she co...
WILL ROBIE CROUCHED shadowlike at a window in a deserted building, inside a country that was currently an ally of the United States. Tomorrow that could change.
Triton has lost the use of the money while BankTrust sorts things out and
Thus, he and his gun had been sent to do the deed, in the interests of national security, which seemed to be a catchall to justify any death, anywhere, any time.
Those who only watched pro football from the safety of their stadium seats or big-screen TVs could never imagine the devastating power of enormous men running at speed into other enormous men. It was...
This message was repeated down the line until it was ringing in every guard’s ears. Shots fired and nobody knew from where or by whom. And since none of the guards had guns, that meant one of the pris...
There’s a chromosome that goes haywire when you turn thirteen. It commands you to live in filth while withstanding all threats by parents to clean up your act.
There was a time when Stone would have rated a platoon of crackerjack killers coming for him by land, sea and air. Those days apparently were over. A quartet of suits in a Cadillac on steroids was eno...
There are no coincidences. All you needed was more in-depth investigation to show that there are no coincidences.
The world is complicated, so people seek complicated solutions. And there's nothing wrong with that because simple answers don't usually work. But sometimes the answers are simple and people still ref...
The white men had basically crapped all over the only race that could call itself indigenous in America.
The spokeswoman said, The victims, a mother and her young son, have been identified, but we’re withholding their
The real worth of a person came from how he acted during the bad times. (John Fiske)
The Pullers sat there for a long time together, big, strong, and courageous men transformed back into two little boys by an old man's loving words that had come a lot later than they should have.
That’s what’s called a ‘valley fill.’ What they fill it with the coal companies call ‘overburden.’ That’s basically everything they tore off the land: trees, soil, and rock that the coal companies swe...
That’s what civilization sometimes did to threats, real or perceived. They walled them off. Us against them. Survival of the fittest. You die so I can live.