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...
Nobody learned nothing. Nobody evolved.
It’s been a complicated decade for me.
It’s a lot easier to ask a woman’s forgiveness than her permission.
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...
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.
Brendan knew about the truth. In most cases, it was just a matter of deciding whether you wanted to look it in the face or live with the comfort of ignorance and lies. And ignorance and lies were ofte...
After all this suffering, the faces seemed to ask, are we to accept that suffering is the point?
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...
Need to confess anything to anyone. You go. And why would I go?
You see the worst in the best of people, she said, shaking her head, and the best in the worst of people.
Those eyes, Teddy thought. Even frozen in time, they howled. You wanted to climb inside the picture and say, 'No, no, no. It's okay, it's okay. Sssh.' You wanted to hold her until the shakes stopped,...
The brain controls pain. It controls fear. Sleep. Empathy. Hunger. Everything we associate with the heart or the soul or the nervous system is actually controlled by the brain. Everything. What if you...
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...
My blessings outweigh my regrets.
Kenzie… Me di la vuelta para mirar a Bolton. —Si usted y su socia no son ni civiles ni polis, ¿qué son? Me encogí de hombros. —Un par de idiotas que se creen más duros de lo que realmente son.