Moaned his final breath into the imitation Oriental.
You ever think how the most minor decision can change the entire direction of your life? Like, say you miss your bus one morning, so you buy that second cup of coffee, buy a scratch ticket while you'r...
Sometimes, when outrage begat outrage with enough frequency, it threatened the fabric of the universe, and the universe pushed back.
She couldn’t tell if the sadness in his smile stemmed from pity for her or if he just possessed a sad smile.
Por supuesto. —Echó un trago—. El mundo es violento, Patrick. La gente disfruta matando. Porque… —Les da poder —dijo Oscar. —Exactamente —reconoció Devin—. Tiene que haber algo en ello que te hace sen...
Maybe I'd move to Tibet, climb a mountain with the Dalai Lama or head to Paris and wear nothing but black, grow myself a keen goatee and talk about jazz all the time. Or maybe I'd do what I always do...
Love like that? Hell, it seems so pure, it's damn near criminal.
It's hard to close the door on optimistic expectations when you love someone.
I'll be waiting at the airport.'
I will not dream anymore, you said. I will not set myself up for the pain. But then your team made the playoffs, or you saw a movie, or a billboard glowing dusky orange and advertising Aruba, or a gir...
I don’t have room in my heart for most people. Got nothing against them, but I got nothing for them, either.
How much violence, Marshal, do you think a man can carry before it breaks him?
He'd known her, of course; everyone in the neighborhood knew of Katie. She was that beautiful. But few people really knew her. Beauty could do that; it scared you off, made you keep your distance. It...
Four in the morning, and she was more awake than she’d been in years. She was Christmas-morning-when-you’re-eight kind of awake. Her blood was caffeine. Your whole life, you wished for something like...
Charm was the luxury of those who still believed in the essential rightness of things. In purity and picket fences.
Another long pull of the sawteeth across the pink folds of his brain, and Teddy had to bite down against a scream and he heard Rachel’s screams in there too with the fire and he saw her looking into h...
You have to bear witness to your dead. You simply have to. You have to step into their energy field of whatever remains of their spirit, their soul, their essence and let it pass through your body. An...
You hear it most when politicians who live in places like Hyannis Port and Beacon Hill and Wellesley make decisions that affect people who live in Dorchester and Roxbury and Jamaica Plain, and then st...
Which would be worse, to live as a monster or to die as a good man?
This was the photograph, I knew, that had already burned its way into my dreams and my shadows, into that part of my mind that I have no control over. Its image would reappear in all its wanton cruelt...