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.
That’s how the Sukulowskis got out? Captain Byner asked. Yup. Joe lit a cigarette. Where’d they end up? Joe tossed his match in the ashtray. You don’t really want to know. Rico said, Gentlemen, I agre...
She was afraid of all that and so much more, but what terrified her most was inside of her, an insect of unnatural intelligence who’d been living in her brain her entire life, playing with it, clickin...
I’m just saying there are threads, okay? Threads in our lives. You pull one, and everything else gets affected.
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...
If it’s ever within your power to do so, she considered saying aloud to Brian (but didn’t), you have to bear witness to your dead. You simply have to. You have to step into the energy field of whateve...
If a man was lucky, he was moving toward something his whole life.
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
I loved this woman the way you love ... well, nothing, he said, a note of suprise in his voice. You can’t compare that kind of love to anything, can you? It’s its own unique gift.
He’d never wanted kids. Outside of priority boarding on an airline, he couldn’t see the upside to them. They took over your life and filled you with terror and weariness and people acted like having o...
He wanted to ask her what sound a heart made when it broke from pleasure, when just the sight of someone filled you the way food, blood, and air never could, when you felt as if you'd been born for on...
He used it on the next guard, the one in front of the fence. He disarmed him, a kid, a baby, really, and the guard said, 'You going to kill me?''Jesus, kid, no,' Teddy said and snapped the butt of the...
Had eyes Luther’d seen before in the white poor—spent his whole life eating rage in place of food. Developed a taste for it he wouldn’t lose no matter how regular he ate for the rest of his life.
Craftsmanship, his Uncle Cornelius had once told him, was just a fancy word for what happened when labor met love.
An entire tree swept past the door, upside down, its roots sprouting upward like horns. You see that? Yeah. It’s gonna wake up in the middle of the ocean, say, ’Wait a second. This isn’t right.’ ’I’m...
Achievement? Depends on luck—to be born in the right place at the right time and be of the right color. To live long enough to be in the right place at the right time to make one’s fortune. Yes, yes,...
A man is the stories he tells about himself, and most of those stories are lies. Never look too closely. If you uncover his lies, it’ll humiliate you both. Best just to live with the bullshit.
A man is the stories he tells about himself and most of those stories are lies. And never look too closely if you uncover his lies, it will humiliate you both. Its best to just live with the bullshit....