It was hideous. Because if someone can be that happy? That perfect? What’s that say about the rest of us?
I will not dream anymore, you said. I will not set myself up for the pain. But then your team made the playoffs, or you saw a movie, or a billboard glowing dusky orange and advertising Aruba, or a gir...
His father was gone. He was no longer a son. He was a man without history or expectation. A blank slate, beholden to none. He felt like a pilgrim who’d pushed off from the shore of a homeland he’d nev...
But what? No one’s good, no one’s bad. Everyone’s just trying to make their way.
Being alone, you see, is the worst of hell’s punishments.
—Es la tensión —le expliqué—. La espera. —¿Qué quieres decir? —A veces parece peor que la simple confrontación. Te parece que si pudieras hacer algo dejarías de sentirte como si trataras de desprender...
You didn't die and go to a better place; this was the better place because you weren't dead. Heaven wasn't in the clouds; it was the air in your lungs.
We all have our crosses to bear.
There seemed to be little rhyme or reason as to why one day snatching the correct words from the ether was like opening a faucet and other days it was like opening a vein,
Each day in this country, twenty-three hundred children are reported missing.
Choice, I've always believed, is all that separates us from animals.
Charming as he was, you never felt fully comfortable with the guy, because he never seemed fully comfortable with himself.
He'd never believed that power, in any shape or form, was anything more than the intemperate protrusion on the egomaniacal heart. Since all egomaniacs were insecure to their frightened cores, they thi...
Those who did remember probably shrugged off the chill of her memory, turned their heads down to the sports page or up toward the approaching bus. The world is a terrible place, they thought. Bad thin...
There’s a bar around the corner. Lemme buy you a drink before the war.
The trick, Teddy had long since learned, was to stay busy and stay focused. They couldn't catch you if you didn't stop running.
That if you believe, really believe, and if your strategy is sound, and if you’re willing to leave everything you’ve got on the field of battle to win the day—he held his arms wide—you can do anything...
Men. If you give them half a chance, they'll fuck you over just to prove they can.
Maybe there are some things we were put on this earth not to know.
Lo hice. Me quedé de rodillas mientras los polis se me acercaban con cautela, el aire amargo la tomaba con mis pies descalzos y mi fina camisa y los médicos subían a Angie a la ambulancia y se la llev...