They couldn't catch you if you didn't stop running.
She leaps into dark waters and then complains about the depth but blames me for the leaping).
It took only a second for another to arrive on the same path as yours and change your life to a point it couldn’t change back. One second.
Chuck said, Fuck if I know.Cawley stepped up beside them. Quite similar to our clinical conclusion.
After all this suffering, the faces seemed to ask, are we to accept that suffering is the point?
He'd never believed that power, in any shape or form, was anything more than the intemperate protrusion on the egomaniacal heart. Since all egomaniacs were insecure to their frightened cores, they thi...
You heard me. Let someone else send you to your blaze of glory. You're a speck, man. You're nothing. You're not worth the bullet or the mark on my soul for taking you out.You trying to piss me off aga...
The parishioners looked dazed, but happy. The only thing good Catholics love more than God is a short service. Keep your organ music, your choir, keep your incense and processionals. Give us a priest...
Some ghost of myself still lived back in the days when we'd shared a bed and talked of the future. But that love we'd had and those selves we'd been were gone, placed in a box like old photographs and...
She felt like weeping. She didn't know why at first, but then it hit her.He knew her.He knew her, this man she'd married, this man she'd committed herself to walking through this life with. He knew he...
Permitidme que os invite a un trago antes de la guerra.
Love, impossible, yet there was no mistaking it
It’s a lot easier to ask a woman’s forgiveness than her permission.
It was hideous. Because if someone can be that happy? That perfect? What’s that say about the rest of us?
His father was gone. He was no longer a son. He was a man without history or expectation. A blank slate, beholden to none. He felt like a pilgrim who’d pushed off from the shore of a homeland he’d nev...
He knew her. He knew her, this man she’d married, this man she’d committed herself to walking through this life with. He knew her. And—wonder of wonders—he was still here.
Got us a full moon too coming tomorrow night. Just make things a whole lot worse. All we need.- Why is that?- What’s that, Marshal?- The full moon. You think it makes people crazy?- I know it does.- F...
Each day in this country, twenty-three hundred children are reported missing.
Chuck said, Hey. How many surrealists does it take to screw in a lightbulb? Cawley looked over at him. I’ll bite. How many? Fish, Chuck said and let loose a bright bark of a laugh.
Brian joking that if there was one place in the city where the locals didn’t need help learning how to shoot—or dodge—bullets, it was Dorchester.