Save Gas, Fart in a Jar.
I want to know more about true, complete people, not dirty scraps of humans.
Just … No, Amy. Not right now. I can’t take one more bit of stress. I can’t handle one more thing to worry about. I am cracking under the pressure. I will snap. For once I know he’s telling the truth.
She’s a planner. She doesn’t, you know, wing anything. She likes to make lists and check things off, get things done.
Shotgun blasts in a small hallway. The panicked, jaybird cries of my mother, still trying to save her kids with half her head gone.
People will think we’re ironic instead of creatively bankrupt,
It was him. The boy in ‘I met a boy!
No estoy seguro de que, llegados a este punto, sigamos siendo realmente humanos, al menos aquellos de nosotros que somos como la mayoría de nosotros: los que crecimos con la televisión y el cine y aho...
I’ve always been partial to the image of liquor as lubrication—a layer of protection from all the sharp thoughts in your head. The
Me gustan las reglas que tienen sentido, no las reglas sin lógica
Teeth chattering and my heartbeat thumping behind my eyeballs.
Good catch, Tanner said. Next time do it before it comes out of your mouth.
Je n'étais pas une enfant aimable, et je suis devenue une adulte profondément mal aimable. Si on voulait dessiner mon âme, on obtiendrait un gribouillis avec des crocs pointus.
Sat in groups together purging ourselves, theoretically, of anger and self-hatred. We learned not to turn on ourselves. We learned to blame.
Only Tanner Bolt could get away with making me, a client, fly to him, then tell me what kind of dance I’d need to do in order to give him my money.
The ones we picked? We didn’t call them marks, or prey or victims. We called them Tonys, because my dad was named Tony and he could never say no to anyone (although I assume he said no to my mom at le...
I don't have anything else to add. I just wanted to make sure I had the last word. I think I've earned that.
To know exactly what I wanted to hear in those notes, to woo me back to her, even to predict all my wrong moves … the woman knew me cold. Better than anyone in the world, she knew me. All this time I’...
Worries find you easily enough without inviting them. With Diane, worries were almost physical beings, leechy creatures with latchhooks for fingers, meant to be vanquished immediately. Diane didn’t wo...
You think: Oh, here is the rest of my life. It’s finally arrived.
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