Наш дом — ночь, и мы пляшем так бешено, что под ногами не успевает вырасти трава.
¿Habías visto algo tan cruel? Soltó una risita. —He visto cosas
Organs softening. Trooper, Friel said, You know what I like even less than ten-year-old black boys getting shot by bullshit gang-war crossfire? Sean knew the answer, but he didn’t say anything. Ninete...
For a moment, distant. It’s what you do, Teddy said softly. Sure, Chuck said eventually, his face still flushed. The dock appeared as
All he wanted was to not be alone, but he knew there was no getting rescued from that
You think the whole electrical system is fried? Chuck said, Good possibility. That would mean fences. Chuck picked up an apple as it floated onto his foot. He went into a windup and kicked his leg and...
When you go to the other place, part of you doesn't come back.'
Whatever she saw beyond the camera lens, beyond the photographer, beyond anything in the known world probably - wasn't fit to be seen.
This was a cruel trick of the mind, yes, but Teddy had long ago accepted the logic of it—waking, after all, was an almost natal state. You surfaced without a history, then spent the blinks and yawns r...
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.
My blessings outweigh my regrets.
I’m just saying there are threads, okay? Threads in our lives. You pull one, and everything else gets affected.
It’s like I’m in a beautiful library but none of the books have titles.
It’s impossible to park on Tremont or even idle there for more than thirty seconds. A platoon of meter maids, imported from the female Hitler Youth shortly after the fall of Berlin, roam the street, a...
It was one of those sneaky days in late winter where spring came along to get a lay of the land.
It had occurred to Sean once - on a bender about ten years before with some buddies, Sean and a bloodstream full of bourbon turning philosophical - that maybe they HAD gotten in that car. All three of...
In his time on earth, he’d learned one truth above all else when it came to power—those who lost it usually didn’t see it vanishing until it was already gone.
If you are deemed insane, then all actions that would oherwise prove you are not do, in actuality, fall into the framework of an insane person’s actions. Your sound protests constitute denial. Your va...
If Donald Trump puked, Copley Place is probably what would hit the toilet.
I'd like to say I found a sublime beauty in it all, but I didn't. And yet. And yet, this life we'd built filled our car