The faith of children is an awesome thing to behold. If only we could all be worthy of it.
The female memory defies explanation.
The hour of justice does not strike on the dials of this world.
The naïveté of human beings is truly breathtaking
The stillest thing in the world is the corpse of someone you loved. A hunk of cold granite seems more alive than a dead human being. You don't expect a stone to move. A person robbed of all motion and...
Psychiatric evaluation. Roberts glanced at Jack Moran. If you will agree to
The temptation to second-guess is strong. But I must remember one thing. Life is simple.
The thing about kicking open a door to the past is that sometimes what’s behind it comes out under its own power.
Their belligerence in public places, their rudeness…there’s almost a pride in ignorance here. Black employees refuse to wait on white customers in stores. They treat incompetence as though it’s some k...
When you start talking to yourself in a graveyard, it’s time to go home.
When we reach the intersection with Homochitto Street, I turn right, into town, and soon we’re passing Dunleith, the antebellum mansion that I always say makes Tara from Gone with the Wind look like a...
There’s no meaning to be found in tragedy. Only in our response to it.
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...
Change my conviction.
Between us. That night I prayed like a man trying to polish coal
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.
To all those adults who return home to repay the debt of childhood, and find they never really left. Listen while you still can.
We do not just belong to this universe, we are it.
Fuchsia-blooming crape myrtle trees, which are tended
We rarely act from logic when facing the critical choices of our lives.
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