Why is it people fall for the wrong person? Then, when the inevitable happens, they spend the rest of their lives trying to get over it.
Well, Ralph continued, if you can find another one to do the job, hire him and pay the going rate. In the meantime, tomorrow morning
Taken out of context and given a forty-degree twist, you can use the Bible to justify almost anything.
Screwed up and incomprehensible as it may seem to a rank outsider, making a movie is a lot like living life. You work with little bits and pieces without ever getting a look at the big picture. It com...
One of the biggest mistakes a man can make is to work too goddamned much. First you drank so much it got you in trouble, and now you're gonna work so much it'll be the same damn thing. Society ain't a...
Like an old snakebit hound wanting his own cave under a house, I wanted to go home to lick my wounds.
I’ve heard that kids learn new languages faster than older people can. Tomas
I suppose my mother would have been proud of me. At least I was wearing clean shorts.
Everybody leads you to think that hospice is this really great thing, that once you accept it, life just smooths out and everything is peachy keen. What a load of crap!
But now that time seemed eons ago—another lifetime, maybe even another body. The
Being called names did hurt, and the wounds left behind never really healed over. Liza’s heart still bore the scars to prove it. She had
Aren’t parents ever right? They either do too goddamned much or too goddamned little, but they’re never right, at least not as far as their kids are concerned.
Amos Warren walked with his shoulders stooped and with his eyes and mind focused on the uneven ground beneath his feet. The winter rains had been more than generous and this part of the Sonoran Desert...
According to Occam’s razor, the right answer is always the simplest answer, the one requiring the fewest assumptions.
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Just up the street from the railroad tracks. She was able to buy it for a song because the previous owner
When the chief saw all this fighting, he decided that there would be no more wine feasts, so he carefully gathered up all the Giant Cactus seeds and gave them to a messenger to take far away. The peop...
There’s very little distance between love and hate, and often death obliterates the distance between the two entirely. They fuse into a paralyzing turmoil of opposing emotions, one that’s almost impos...
There’s something life-giving about children, even in a time of mourning, something that helps people see beyond their immediate losses.
That’s what friends are for, I said. It doesn’t matter if they’re old friends or new friends. They’re the kind of people who will listen as long as you need them to because, sometimes, telling the sto...