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...
He looked around at the others....They were all staring at their computers, or reading books or newspapers. Not one of them has noticed the weather. Maybe that's how the world was now....Everyone was...
Decker shook his head and stood. It goes beyond mere eccentricity. She also has a run-down farmhouse and a crappy car that she drives to work and on her rounds as the proverbial Good Samaritan. What d...
Decker gazed over at him. You can still marry again. Have kids, Ross. I think raising kids is a younger man’s game. I’m not far off the big five-oh.
Confidence is one thing, disrespect is quite another. (Justice Elizabeth Knight)
At the end of a lifetime’s worth of lights and nights, it seemed that family was really the only important thing there was. And yet how many of us truly appreciated that significance before our last b...
As opposed to what? A country run by old white billionaires and their paid lackeys in Washington?
As my father wrote, one's courage, hope, and spirit can be severely tried by the happenstance of life. But as I learned on this Virginia mountain, so long as one never loses faith, it is impossible to...
America was full of opportunity, everybody said. You just had to unlock it. Only they forgot to give out keys for LuAnn’s kind. Or maybe they didn’t forget at all. Maybe it was intentional.
Although America loved its tough guys, they weren’t ready to vote for leaders who exhibited no compassion for the downtrodden and miserable, for on any given day they might constitute a majority.
After a few moments of silence Puller said, You think he was achieving all of it for his father? Because he never got the chance to do it himself? Rooney pointed at him. That’s what I believe.
Narcissist. People often discounted narcissism as relatively harmless because the term sometimes conjured the clichéd image of a vain man staring longingly at his reflection in a pool of water or a mi...
Looking at her but not really seeing her, and his baby girl sure as heaven not seeing her daddy either
Engagement with Walton? asked Robie. Patti considered this for a moment. I think he didn’t want to stay here but she did. It was her home. But he apparently didn’t think of it as his home anymore.
There’s one key difference between the Olympics and combat, Susan. You might have overlooked it. He paused. In the Olympics, no one is shooting back at you.
That’s good to hear, Billy. Kids have enough shit to deal with without somebody who is supposed to love them beating the crap out of them.
That was the problem with an eight-figure gorilla of a client. It took all of your time and attention. Old clients dried up and died away. New clients were not cultivated. His complacency had come bac...
Rogers raised a fist to deliver a blow to the head that would have almost certainly killed the man. The spot on his head was burning like somebody had set it on fire with an acetylene torch.
Puller thought about this. He still didn’t have a place to stay, but he didn’t think it was a good idea to crash at Landry’s place again. And even though he had finished processing his aunt’s home he...
Just because I work there doesn't mean I have to drink all the Kool-Aid. - Veronica Knox