I once again felt an odd flush of admiration for my partner's faith in a religion I had long ago abandoned. She doesn't advertise it or announce it at every turn, and she has nothing but scorn for the...
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.
I know you. I've known you my whole life. I've been waiting. Waiting for you to make an appearance. Waiting all these years.I knew you in the womb.
I just notice people sometimes mistake their life choices for their moral ones.
I don’t believe he casts people into eternal flame for fornication, as you pointed out. Or for believing in a version of him that is a little off the mark. I believe—or, I want to believe—he considers...
Her forehead was unlined in the way of the recently embalmed and her smile resembled that of someone undergoing electroshock.
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.
Do you know what it’s like to fight with someone every day? Someone who claims to dislike conflict but who in fact lives for it?
Craftsmanship, his Uncle Cornelius had once told him, was just a fancy word for what happened when labor met love.
Believe it or not, Marshal, I believe in talk therapy, basic interpersonal skills. I have this radical idea that if you treat a patient with respect and listen to what he's trying to tell you, you jus...
Being alone, you see, is the worst of hell’s punishments.
Another death. The more I see, the less I know.
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 to just live with the bullshit.
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 complaint that's not looking for a solution is a disease that's not looking for a cure.
Near-deserted parking lot, both buildings looking freshly painted and hopeful for a marina in which there were no yachts. The biggest boat moored at the dock looked to be a forty-footer. Most of the o...
You‘ve always had a soft heart, son. You just hide it better than most. Danny shrugged. Starting to hide it from myself, then, I guess. Always the danger, that. Then one day, sure, you can‘t remember...