I remember the will said, 'May God thy gold refine.' That must be from the Bible.Shakespeare, Turtle said. All quotations were either from the Bible or Shakespeare.
Jake Wexler,
Today I have gathered together my nearest and dearest, my sixteen nieces and nephews (Sit down, Grace Windsor Wexler!) to view the body of your Uncle Sam for the last time. Tomorrow its ashes will be...
Who were these people, these specially selected tenants? They were mothers and fathers and children. A dressmaker, a secretary, an inventor, a doctor, a judge. And, oh yes, one was a bookie, one was a...
Your trouble comes from years of wearing the wrong kind of shoes. - Jake Wexler
Life, too, is senseless unless you know who you are, what you want, and which way the wind blows.
I wanted to be a doctor, but, well, we don’t have as much money as my mother pretends. Dad said he could manage if that’s what I really wanted, but my mother said it was too difficult for a woman to g...
HOO JAMES SHIN HOO. Born: James Hoo in Chicago. Age: 50. Added Shin to his name when he went into the restaurant business because it sounded more Chinese. First wife died of cancer five years ago. Mar...
The sun sets in the west (just about everyone knows that), but Sunset Towers faced east. Strange!
She could have been an interior decorator, a good one, too, if it wasn’t for the pressing demands of so on and so forth.
Sandy fidgeted with his pen. There’s something I didn’t write down. Maybe I shouldn’t tell you, you being a judge and all, but, well, Jake Wexler… he’s a bookie.No, he should not have told her. A smal...
Read it out loud, dear, Grace ordered, as Angela opened the card tied to the yellow-ribboned box. To the bride-to-be in the kitchen stuck, An asparagus cooker and lots of luck. from Cookie Barfspringe...
Hello, Jake, I’m so glad you could come, Sunny (as Madame Hoo was now called) said, shaking the hand of the chairman of the State Gambling Commission.
The poor are crazy, the rich just eccentric. - James Shin Hoo
Grace sat down where the chair wasn't.
Sunset Towers faced east and had no towers.
Senseless, you say? Death is senseless yet makes way for the living. Life, too, is senseless unless you know who you are, what you want, and which way the wind blows.
Can you stand on your legs? Sydelle Pulaski asked. Can you walk at all?People never asked Chris those questions; they whispered them to his parents behind his back. N-n-no. Why?What better disguise fo...
All quotations were either from the Bible or Shakespeare.
Angela Wexler,