What I mean is, everything is pretty much decided by the time these children leave here and enter kindergarten. I can tell who will be successful and who will fail, who will end up happy and who will...
We get mad at someone for cutting us off in traffic or for taking too long to order at Starbucks or for not responding exactly as we see fit, and we have no idea that behind their facade, they may be...
We are often told during times of bereavement that time heals all wounds. That's crap. In truth, you are devastated, you mourn, you cry to the point where you think you'll never stop - and then you re...
We always seem to be on the eve of destruction. And we always seem to get through it. Maybe we all survive the destruction we have wrought.
We all want to convince ourselves that it is about hard work and education and perseverance, but the truth is, life is much more about the fickle and the random. We don’t want to admit it, but we are...
Watch out for people who belong in your past. Don’t let ’em back in your life.
War is never a meritocracy for the casualties.
Two people, a man and your ex, Maura, are in the car, Reynolds says. Officer Canton pulls them over for a DUI. Something spooks them. They panic, shoot Officer Canton twice in the back of the head, ta...
Trust is like that. You can break it for a good reason. But it still remains broken.
Thomas had hated the whole idea of Santa Claus anyway. What was the point? Why do you tell kids that some weird fat guy who lives at the North Pole watches them all the time? Sorry, that’s just creepy...
Thomas had gotten his learner’s permit a week ago—the parental equivalent of a stress test without using an actual EKG machine.
This was a place where tattoos outnumbered teeth.
They would claim that she was either delusional or naïve to the point of a learning disability.
There were some night paths the mind was better off not traversing;
There should have been a dark whisper in the wind. Or maybe a deep chill in the bone. Something. An ethereal song only Elizabeth or I could hear. A tightness in the air. Some textbook premonition. The...
There are virtually no major life decisions you make that are not in some way based on your finances.
There are some places the mind should not go; it gets steered there anyway.
The young family who'd moved into the Miller home had gotten rid of the Millers' trademark overflowing flower boxes. The new owners of the Davis place had ripped out those wonderful shrubs Bob Davis h...
The world is nothing but a bunch of thin lines separating what we think are extremes.
The other: Oh my God, we were like so wasted. From beer? Beer and shots, yeah. How did you get home? Randy drove. At the top of the stairs, Myron stiffened.