What’s good for the goose is definitely good for the desperate housewife. Even if this never happened again
What is a lie? It's a distortion of reality, presented as reality. We say it's a bad thing. We teach kids not to lie. We even put people in prison for lying. And yet there are lies all around us, and...
What are you guys doing? If you anted me to take a shower, all you had to do was pay me ten bucks, like you usually do
What are you doing here? [ndr prison]Selling Girl Scout cookies, I said. Want some? The Samoas are terrific.(Max II to Max)
We’re headed for the South Pole! Gazzy jumped over the low threshold into our room from the boys’ room next door. And it’s, like, so far south that it’s the bottom of the whole world.
Well, it's like I have a GPS inside me, I told them. One of the talking ones. I tell it where I want to go, and it tells me, Go twenty miles, turn left, take Exit Ninety-fourm and so one. It can be pr...
Wait, wait. What I mean to say is, I’m crazy about you, Cindy. Dating and so forth, it’s great. But I want to be with you. I want more. You do, huh? Rich grinned at her. Scout’s honor. I sure do.
Victory belongs to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
To be an American once meant something, Gray says softly. You were part of a people and country that was respected and feared. When an American walked the street or a fighter plane took to the air, or...
This is not a democracy, I said, understanding he fear but unable to do anything about it. It's a Maxocracy.
The thing is, Max, he said, tons of heart-wringing emotion in his eyes, you’re even more special than I always told you. You see, you were created for a reason. Kept alive for a purpose, a special pur...
The items on the counter in the shop had been pawned by a man who had used an American driving licence as his ID, issued in the state of New Mexico in the name Jack Bauer. He had received 16,430 krono...
The haughtiness suddenly fell from Hamster’s face. He looked at us fearfully for a long second.
The eight-year-old beat your best cadet in hand-to-hand combat? So did the six-year-old girl, ma’am. Actually, she beat the instructor also.
The Dick tells us that Denny once worked on some arson cases, but I'd wager a mortgage payment that those cases took place when you created fire by rubbing two sticks together so you could cook the st...
TWENTY-TWO HOURS AND FORTY-NINE MINUTES LATER (NOT THAT I WAS COUNTING OR ANYTHING) To:
THE RIVER OF FOREVER is not the serene, clear-blue comfort that you'd hope to greet your soul after you've exhaled your last breath in the Overworld.
Robinson sat up and peered out at the lawn. I had no idea you were so deprived. They're the best bugs in the world because they can light up their butts. It's how they find mates
Podesta clicked on the folder containing the digital photos he’d taken of Candace Martin in a car with
Paul Richardson paused in his pacing around