And she was so simply his love, his girl, watching him approach as if she were memorizing him and his walk and those flowers and this moment, and he wanted to ask her what sound a heart made when it b...
You were having nightmares, Marshal. Serious nightmares. I’m in a mental institution on an island in a hurricane, Teddy said. Touché, Cawley said.
You was in all sorts of places, huh? Yeah, I was. Saw the world. What’d you think of it? Different languages, same shit.
When she found his eyes, hers were fuller and sharper, lit with something that had entered the world centuries before civilized things. I get off at midnight, she said.
When I was young, I asked my priest how to get to heaven and still protect yourself from all the evil in the world. He told me what God told His children;'You are sheep among wolves, be wise as the se...
We’re not our brother’s keeper, Joseph. In fact, it’s an insult to our brother to presume he can’t take care of himself.
We all have our crosses to bear.
We all believe lies that bring us more comfort than the truth.
We age as the rest of the world watches, she thought, but somehow we’re the last to know.
We age as the rest of the world watches, she thought, but somehow we’re the last to know. There
The only people who ask questions like ‘Did he want to be something besides a bartender?’ are people who can become whatever they want. The rest of us are just Americans. The
The loneliness of another can be shocking when it lays itself bare without warning.
That’s the thing about being a victim; you start to think it’ll happen to you on a regular basis. Suddenly everything looks suspect and any brightness you may have noticed the day before has dissipate...
So he’s a bad guy. Everyone’s bad. No, Bob said, they’re not. Most people are okay. Yeah? A smile of disbelief. Yeah. They just, I dunno, make a lotta messes and then they make more messes trying to c...
She would rather have known the lie that was Brian than the truth of anything else in her life.
She was guilty, after all, of success, a success that stemmed from birthright and privilege. She took hope for granted, saw opportunity as her due, and had never really had to worry about vanishing in...
Sean turned from the rearview, watched the lights on the other side of the highway for a bit. They came in their direction like bullet eyes, streaked past them like hazy ribbons, blurring into one ano...
Nobody learned nothing. Nobody evolved.
Monsters don't dress like monsters; they dress like humans. Even stranger, they rarely know they're the monsters.
It’s been a complicated decade for me. She