Because her laughter spurts through a blowhole in the top of her head and sprays all over the morning.
Beg pardon? I detected large deposits of vanity. Vanity is the softest of bedrocks to sink shafts into.
Bitch is a stingless insult these days - it hurts like, I don't know, a celery-stabbing.
But an ink brush, she thinks, is a skeleton key for a prisoner’s mind.
But no, we cross, crisscross, and recross our old tracks like figure skaters.
But, overall, I concluded the young-hack-versus-corporate-corruption thriller had potential. (The Ghost of Sir Felix Finch whines, But it's been done a hundred times before! - as if there could be any...
Clark Kent gives up his powers just to have sexual intercourse with Lois Lane in a glittery bed. Who’d make such a stupid swap? If you could fly? Deflect nuclear missiles into space? Turn back time by...
Coffee’s the elixir of life.
Commander Aronsson of the Icelandic Marines, that ship is the ICGV Sjálfstæði. The officer’s voice has a military crispness, and when he turns to his left, the bulletproof visor reflects the low sun....
Contrary to popular wisdom, bullies are rarely cowards. Bullies come in various shapes and sizes. Observe yours. Gather intelligence. Shunning one hopeless battle is not an act of cowardice. Hankering...
Dead things show you what you’ll be too one day.
Dermot found me; bad news inexorably does. Let me reiterate, bumping into Pope Pius XIII would have surprised me less. In fact, His Infallibility would have blended in better
Don't bemoan your misspent life quite yet. Forgive me for flaunting my experience, but you have no conception of what a misspent life constitutes.
Dr. Upward was one of those Academy Award-winning Asses of Arrogance you find in educational administration, law or medicine.
Essex raised its ugly head. When i was a scholarship boy at the local grammar, son of a city-hall toiler on the make, this country was synonymous with liberty, success, and Cambridge. Now look at it....
Esther runs Unalaq’s ruby thumbnail up the stem of a purple tulip. You miss purple, after a few years …
European music is passionately savage, broken by long silences.
Eva knows I'm terra incognita and explores me unhurriedly, like you did. Because she's lean as a boy. Because her scent is almonds, meadow grass. Because if I smile at her ambition to be an Egyptologi...
Eva. Every day I've climbed up the belfry chanting a lucky chant at one syllable per beat, To-day-to-day-let-her-be-here-to-day-to-day.
I know that don't sound senseful, but yarns 'bout Old-Un Smart an' flyin' dwellin's an' grown' babbits in bottles an' pictures zoomin' cross the Hole World ain't senseful neither but that's how it was...
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