The women laugh a little. I do too. Though I’m only mimicking their laughter. Nothing is funny to me.
The ones that test the limits sometimes do the most amazing things in life. That’s what I’ve always thought.
I don’t know why the water and the sky scare me. I wonder if it is because here at the ocean there is no place to hide.
But learned personality traits aren't often based on present reality but on a past from which there is no escape.
Touching on the points of two lives that had once intersected, and were now reunited.
Grateful because each detail kept her from the purpose of the call. She talked about her life in California and how she had never returned to Rock Point or Spruce County.
Bullshit. I wish. I just got off the phone with her so-called lawyer—Deke Meyer. They want to work out a deal so that Mimi can be
Trust and stupidity are close friends. Of course, no one really knows that until it’s too late.
People born rich don’t try so hard. They know they don’t need to. They already have everything they want, and they never have to break a sweat to show it off. Showing it off is for those at risk of en...
No one, certainly no teenager, was normal or felt they were. Everyone wore a kind of mask that kept people from really seeing what - or who - was inside
Maybe it was more than that. Maybe some things shouldn't be explained.
Claire and Dorothea are ill because they can afford to be ill.
Beetles never stop. They gnaw silently and relentlessly. Guilt is like that too.
As we stand there, the rain rolling off umbrellas, a man pushes through the soggy crowd. He’s tall with dark, wavy hair that brushes his ears. He’s wearing a long, black overcoat, and his shoes are ex...
A criminal case is an assemblage of facts and details in an order that presents a story to a jury. Some pieces of the puzzle are magnified and others are diminished. In some cases, pieces are hidden....
You don't get to be the decider of what is yours and what can't be someone else's experience.
I’m going to get back to that place where crumble is a topping and not a way of life. You’ve
He always knew the right thing to say. He understood how to shift a conversation to a place that moved the content from the maudlin to true compassion.
But in late March in the Pacific Northwest, a cease-fire on precipitation only meant the clouds were taking a coffee break.
As the campfire burned to an ashy bowl of red-hot embers, the boys would ramble on, piling up horror upon horror, like cordwood stacked under a blood-red-barked madrona tree.