Replicas never have the ghosts. They're bodies without souls.
Her smile shames the sun
He opened the door and headed into the kitchen. The kitchen table was a mess, done up in Early American Homework. Thomas’s algebra textbook was open to a problem that asked him to complete the square...
Years fly by, but the heart stays in the same place.
Some people held grudges; Esperanza clutched them and tied them around her waist and used cement and Krazy glue to hold them steady.
So basically your plan is to flail about helplessly.
Painful memories didn't just ease back in-they shoved the door open hard, all of them and all at once
No, I don’t live in heartache. I don’t cry myself to sleep or any of that. I am, I tell myself, over it. But I do feel a void, icky as that sounds. And—like it or not—I still think about her every sin...
Maybe the answer isn’t in another job, Wendy said. Maybe the answer is in finding new ways to define manhood.
Mark’s shots fell through the metallic hoop, but how many of them have that kind of accuracy?
I actually had to close my eyes, rub them,
He sounded genuine, but Myron knew that meant nothing. People were amazing liars.
He leaned in conspiratorially. Do you know why the fans turned on those two guys so horribly? Just to keep him talking, Myron shook his head. Because those pretty boys pointed out the truth: We are al...
I try to stress to my children that buying something never leads to true happiness.
But every home is its own island with its own secrets.
Those who had easy answers, be they on the right or the left, were always wrong. The world is complex. It is never one-size-fits-all.
They say it takes a long time to comprehend a tragedy. You're numb. You can't adequately accept the grim reality. Again, that's not true. Not for me anyway.
She said that if you hold on to hate, you lose your grip on so much more.
Sex is for anyone; the aftermath is for lovers.
Secrets...were cancers. Secrets festered. Secrets ate away at your innards, leaving behind nothing but a flimsy husk.