She was around fifty and her eye sockets were starting to recede into her face like a pond starting to dry up.
Persons seeking to find scholarship herein will be sued; persons motivated to discover meaning will be exiled; persons seeking to find an allegory will be summarily ordained.
People like to talk about other people’s misery; it makes them feel their own life is somehow better when it usually isn’t.
Normal people don’t grow up to do the sorts of jobs we do, Jessica,
Min had innumerable questions, and Chung-Cha tried to answer them all as best she could. Is the Supreme Leader really three meters tall? I have never met him, so I do not know. They say he is the stro...
I’m actin’ pro se. Do you even know what that means? Yeah, it’s Latin for ‘dumbass.
It had been so long since we were a family that I had almost forgotten the joy that came with having one. All the small and large moments, many that I had taken for granted while they were occuring, n...
Issues. The dreaded word. It seemed so innocuous. Issues. Everyone had issues.
In his trip to Bethlehem Mark Twain had reported that all sects of Christians, except Protestants, had chapels under the roof of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. However, he also observed that one gr...
If you really love each other, you'd be surprised what you can accomplish.
I was always unfailingly polite to Ladon-Tosh. I didn’t care if he never looked at me or spoke to me. I just wanted him to know that he had a friend in me.
I like to verify things independently. It's not like any of us are infallible.
I don’t believe in ghosts or magic. I don’t either, Mary. But I do know one thing. What’s that? That this guy is not going to get away.
Eleanor, love is like a good piece of wood: It just gets stronger and stronger as the years go by.
Decker had worked his way onto the Cleveland Browns by busting his ass on the practice field, sacrificing his body in idiotic ways that had come back to haunt him in
Dan Robie was someone who could change his opinion of you. Robie well knew that. And when the opinion was altered, the man was unlikely ever to revisit it.
CHAPTER 33 PULLER WAS FOLLOWING LANDRY over to her place. She was ahead of him in a dark blue, white-topped Toyota FJ four-by-four Cruiser. It looked rugged and durable and ready to roll on asphalt or...
A minute of silence ticked by until Natalie said curtly, What kind of a deal can I get?
Love is like a good piece of wood: It just gets stronger and stronger as the years go by.
The poppy crop is the only thing keeping the economy going. And if we don’t buy it terrorists will and use the enormous profits from dealing the drugs to attack us. Lesser of two evils; sometimes it’s...