You have to live a little. Grandma fitted the track bar into the cog on the track. Go out with a bad boy. Run headfirst into a fight. Get roaring drunk. Something!
When you want to take over a city, you have to destroy the illusion of safety it provides. You have to hit the large well-protected establishments, find the powerful people who run them and are viewed...
Kate, you’re a pushover, the clerk said. I leaned over the counter and offered him my best deranged smile. Wanna push and see if I fall over?
If you remove adversity, you remove ingenuity and creativity with it. There is no need to strive to make something beautiful or better if it already is.
I would not leave you. I'll be there. Wherever you want 'there' to be.
I dreamed that Curran and I killed a dinosaur and then had sex in the dirt.
He smiled at me, turning into the old Sean Evans. The transformation was so sudden, I blinked to make sure I didn’t imagine it. Because you’re a carebear.
Cornelius opened the car door and cautiously peered out.Yes? I asked.Checking to see if it’s safe to come out.Everyone was a comedian. I sighed and went into my office.
Call her out, Arabella said.Tell her Rogan is yours! Grandma Frida pumped her fist.Don’t let her take your man! Leon declared.We all looked at him.I was feeling left out, he said.
Audrey kept moving with practiced quickness, stepping over roots protruding over the trail and pushing ferns and branches out of her way. She kept a brisk pace, but Kaldar didn't mind. From his vantag...
Are you sure you know where you're going? Andrea frowned.Would you like me to pull over and ask that bamboo for directions?I don't know, do you think it will answer?We peered at the bamboo.I think it...
The first rule of etiquette a boy learns when he's about to entersociety is that civility is due to all women. No provocation, nomatter how unjust and rudely delivered, can validate a man who failsto...
So. You refuse my money, you serve me thirty-year-old Highland Park scotch, and we've been in the same room for approximately five minutes, yet none of my bones are broken. This leads me to believe th...
Knocking, it’s a thing, I told him. You make a fist, lift it, and gently hit the door to let the person inside know you are out there.
It became known that I had a rather fertile imagination, when it came to private activities.She stared. What sort of private activities?This time he did smile, and it turned his face wicked. Disrobe,...
I squinted at her. You’re an adult. You’re an adult too. But you’re an older adult. You’ve had more practice. Mom leaned back and laughed.
I held my hand out. Give me a grenade.Andrea pulled open her backpack and slid a grenade into my palm. Wait until they start shooting the Jeep. Boom comes first, shrapnel flies second. Count to ten be...
His beard was nonexistent, except for a carefully trimmed goatee that met his mustache on both sides of his mouth. The overall effect was decidedly villainous. He needed a black horse and a barbarian...
He’d spent the night in the boat. Next to the spaghetti queen.William glanced at the hobo girl. She sat across from him, huddled in a clump. Her stench had gotten worse overnight, probably from the da...
He looked like he needed some jungle ruins to explore or some bad people to hit with a chair. Trouble was, he was the bad people.