She’d heard that the author Margaret Mitchell had never lived in a place with more than one bedroom for a simple reason: She had never wanted houseguests.
She backed up against a brick wall. Tears sliding down her face, she moaned, Please, please don’t hurt me. I swear I won’t tell nobody what you done. I swear to God. Please. Rogers bent down and picke...
People can lie with words, but their faces, and in particular their eyes, give them away. They
One underlying philosophy in Ecclesiastes is that the individual can find truth by using his powers of observation and reason instead of blindly following tradition. You acquire wisdom and focus that...
Oh yeah, said Annabelle. If you want to drive yourself nuts spend a couple days zooming around country roads with Mr. Speedy while he drones on and on about some dead writer no one but him has ever he...
Not really. All you have to do is spend your life running from one awful place to another, write about every horrible thing you see. The civilized world reads about it, then forgets it, but pats you o...
Normal people don’t grow up to do the sorts of jobs we do, Jessica,
Lying caused a physiological reaction that cut the flow of blood to the capillaries located at the end of the nose. It caused a tingling feeling that usually made the liar rub at the spot.
Luther glanced at the framed prints on the nightstand and wryly observed the twenty-something little woman next to the seventy-something husband. There were many types of lotteries in the world and no...
Kids make everything better. And harder.
I’ve found that guys who inherit like that often have a chip on their shoulder. The man brags too much about how successful he is. Somebody who’d earned it probably wouldn’t feel the need. You don’t s...
I’m not saying that riding the train will change your life, or that passenger rail will be a big moneymaker one day. But no matter how fast we feel we have to go, shouldn’t there be room for a train,...
I’m gonna be sick, Burt moaned. I’m gonna be sick!
It’s not getting from A to B. It’s not the beginning or the destination that counts. It’s the ride in between.
It's not the beginning or the destination that counts. It's the ride in between.
It's hard, Cotton. To let yourself love something you know you may never have.
It was not known precisely how many labor camps there were in North Korea, although the international consensus was six. The fact that they were numbered and those numbers reached at least as high as...
It had always bothered Tom that women thought they could win an argument with a man simply by appealing to his baser instincts, by holding out the mere possibility of award-winning carnal knowledge. I...
Issues. The dreaded word. It seemed so innocuous. Issues. Everyone had issues.
IF U WANT TO KICK THE TIGER ASS BECAREFULL OF HIS TEETH FIRST.