No, please elaborate. Okay, say you go into the break room, she said, and a couple people you like are there, say someone’s telling a funny story, you laugh a little, you feel included, everyone’s so...
Miranda rested the side of her face on the desk—the perfection of the cool laminate against her burning skin—and considered the poverty of the room. Poverty not in the economic sense, but in the sense...
Jeevan’s understanding of disaster preparedness was based entirely on action movies, but on the other hand, he’d seen a lot of action movies. He
I’m like a man in a wheelchair watching other people run. I can see what good acting is but I can’t quite reach it but I’m so close sometimes, V. I’m really trying.
It just doesn’t make sense, Elizabeth insisted. Are we supposed to believe that civilization has just come to an end?Well, Clark offered, it was always a little fragile, wouldn’t you say? They were si...
If your soul left this earth I would follow and find you Silent, my starship suspended in night
If hell is other people, what is a world with almost no people in it?
I was in the hotel, he said finally. I followed your footprints in the snow. There were tears on his face. Okay, someone said, but why are you crying? I’d thought I was the only one, he said.
I wanted to be her north star. I wanted to be her map. I wanted to drink coffee with her in the cafes in the morning and do things, as you do, as she did, instead of just philosophizing about them and...
I am heartless, she thinks, but she knows even through her guilt that this isn’t true. She knows there are traps everywhere that can make her cry, she knows the way she dies a little every time someon...
He likes the thought of ships moving over the water, toward another world just out of sight.
Clark disliked the general state of unshavenness, partly for aesthetic reasons and partly because he was a believer in the broken-windows theory of urban-crime management, the way the appearance of de...
Also because the two young women working the kiosk seemed profoundly unconcerned by what was unfolding on CNN, either that or they were extremely stoic or they hadn’t noticed yet, so visiting them was...
All three caravans of the Travelling Symphony are labelled as such, THE TRAVELLING SYMPHONY lettered in white on both sides, but the lead caravan carries an additional line of text: Because survival i...
All three caravans of the Traveling Symphony are labeled as such, THE TRAVELING SYMPHONY lettered in white on both sides, but the lead caravan carries an additional line of text:
AT FIRST THE PEOPLE in the Severn City Airport counted time as though they were only temporarily stranded. This was difficult to explain to young people in the following decades, but in all fairness,...
The best advice her mother ever gave her: Walk in like you own the place.)
What else might this awakening world contain?
He had an idea—too sentimental to speak aloud and he knew none of his divorced friends would ever own up to it—that something must linger, a half-life of marriage, some sense memory of love even if ob...
You look like an executive, she said to herself in the mirror, and the thought that flitted behind this was You look like a stranger. She pushed it away.