The other side of his desk. Yeah, well, like I always say, miss, you could
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...
The world didn't give a shit. It didn't bestow. It took
Sometimes, when outrage begat outrage with enough frequency, it threatened the fabric of the universe, and the universe pushed back.
She leaps into dark waters and then complains about the depth but blames me for the leaping).
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...
It's hard to close the door on optimistic expectations when you love someone.
How naive can you be before it becomes unforgivable?
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.
Everyone sees different things.
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...
Happiness doesn't lie in conspicuous consumption and the relentless amassing of useless crap. Happiness lies in the person sitting beside you and your ability to talk to them. Happiness is clear-heade...
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...
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...
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...
When you go to the other place, part of you doesn't come back.'
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...
The lines in her face were deep enough to hide gravel in.
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...