To yearn for ignorance is to embrace the wishful thinking of a child. For once the stone hits the surface of the pond, the ripples never really stop.
He committed such a heinous act, would have owned up to it and taken his punishment like a man, as the archaic phrase goes. That may be a quaint and sexist notion these days, but some of what is best...
He know how to work the computers, navigate our intranet? Would he know the user names or passwords of the reporters? No. But if Nick didn’t delete the files, then it could be anybody. How the hell do...
Her? I wonder. Tom? I say, taking advantage of
Into another identity. And I
That right meant more than might; that being faithful and good meant more than being rich; that honor superseded all.
Learned a long time ago, if you’re going to wait for this world to be fair, you’re going to be waiting in the grave.
Learned that the larger world lay not across oceans but within the human mind and heart.
Treachery, weakness, envy, fanaticism—the most destructive forces available to man.
Masked man beats her with the bottle, which doesn’t break, thank God. But then he rips off her panties and rapes her with it. Both holes. Serious trauma, but mostly in the back.
Named False Witness the fourth-best legal thriller ever written. After what? Anatomy of a Murder , The Caine Mutiny , and Presumed Innocent.
Notebooks.
Obeisance
Parking
Path of least resistance, or the walk over hot coals.
Psychiatric evaluation. Roberts glanced at Jack Moran. If you will agree to
Raising
Searching, revealing nothing. A few heads in the audience turn to me, wondering who could possibly have upset the equilibrium of the
Sleeve,
Some harsher truths: that the world they will find beyond the borders of Mississippi looks very different from the one that nurtured them to this point; that the whites among them might soon find them...
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