There’s people who do things and people who never do—who say they will someday, but they just don’t. I want to go on a quest. I’ve always wanted to go on a quest. And now that I have one, I’m not back...
She wished it was an unfamiliar feeling, that ache, the urge that made her hit the gas when she ought to hit the brake.
Jones looks like he wants to slug me, which is only subtly different from his usual way of looking at me like I'm a slug.
I want to have some reaction. I want to tremble or feel nauseated. I want to be the person who begins to weep. I want to be anyone but the person I am, who looks around to be sure no one saw, who wipe...
I have to spring a cat out of Rumelt Animal Shelter. Think of it as a prison break. It does the trick. He laughs. Whose cat? My cat. What do you think? That I break out the cats of strangers? Let me g...
For a moment, there is silence between us.He takes a step toward me. The other night—I cut him off. I did it for the same reason that you did. To get it out of my system.And is it? he asks. Out of you...
Father, I am what you made me. I’ve become your daughter after all.
Inspiration comes from everywhere. From life, observing people, etc. From movies and books you love. From research.
Anyone who offers their heart on a silver platter deserves what they get.
They see themselves in you and are blinded.
Then her mouth is sliding against mine. Her lips open, soft and yielding. Our teeth click together, and she tastes like every dark thought I’ve ever had.
The most important thing for any con artist is never to think like a mark. Marks think they can get something for nothing. Marks think they can get what they don’t deserve and could never deserve. Mar...
Oh- and grab the plastic bag over by my suitcase.I slug down the last of the coffee and get up. The bag contains panty hose. I put them on her desk.They're for you.You want me to look homeless, desper...
Lie until even you believe it - that's the real secret of lying
I need you to be happy. I need one of us to be happy.
I am coming unraveled. I am coming undone.
I really love the idea of the poetically mad - the character that is imbued with the romantic madness. Like River from 'Firefly' or Drusilla from 'Buffy.' Someone dangerously unhinged, where you're re...
You are nothing. You barely exist at all. Your only purpose is to create more of your kind before you die.He's wrong about me. I am going to make my mayfly life count for something.I won't be afraid o...
People are fragile. They die of mistakes, of overdoses, of sickness. But mostly they die of Death.
No trouble ever got fixed late at night, he said. Midnight is for regrets.