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.
I held her, he wanted to say, and if I knew for certain that all it would take to hold her again would be to die, then I couldn't raise the gun to my head fast enough.
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 was just getting started. He was ready to bust wide open. He could feel it. Big things. Big things were coming. From him. From everywhere. That was the feeling he got lately, as if the whole world...
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...
God loves violence. You understand that, don’t you? No, Teddy said, I don’t. The warden walked a few steps forward and turned to face Teddy. Why else would there be so much of it? It’s in us. It comes...
Everyone wants a quick fix. We're tired of being afraid, tired of being sad, tired of feeling overwhelmed, tired of feeling tired. We want the old days back, and we don't even remember them, and we wa...
Escuchamos a políticos que alientan nuestro odio y nuestros mezquinos puntos de vista y nos dicen que hay que volver a lo fundamental mientras toman el sol en sus casas de la playa escuchando el ruido...
Driving down 93, I realized once and for all, that I love the things that chafe. The things that fill me with stress so total I can’t remember when a block of it didn’t rest on top of my heart. I love...
Civilization seems to be something we choose when it fits our purpose.
Cawley probably wasn’t used to questions that continued after he’d shown displeasure with them, so they gave him a minute to catch his breath.
And she was-definitely-a woman who did not shrink from gauntlets, but stepped up to them, and said, Okay, bring it. Bring your worst. I will get back up. Every time. I will not shrivel and die. So wat...
A man is the stories he tells about himself, and most of those stories are lies.
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....
You’ve mislaid your trust in the past, had your faith in people broken, shattered even. You’ve been betrayed. Lied to. So you’ve chosen not to trust. And this protects you to some extent, I’m sure. Bu...
Win for me. Win for my kids. Win for my marriage so I can carry your winning back to the car with me and sit in the glow of it with my family as we drive back toward our otherwise winless lives.
Tuve la impresión de que el tal Rogin era de los que se meten a poli por el mismo motivo por el que otros se convierten en carceleros: para dar rienda suelta a su sadismo de una manera socialmente ace...
The person you love is rarely worthy of how big your love is. Because no one is worthy of that and maybe no one deserves the burden of it, either. You’ll be let down. You’ll be disappointed and have y...
She died in a fire. I miss her like you... If I was underwater, I wouldn't miss oxygen that much.