Are you laughing? I can feel you laughing. My life isn’t funny! Babe, your life should be a prime-time sitcom.
Are you afraid of me?Uh... yes.'The smile stayed fixed in place. 'You should be. You locked me in a refrigerator truck with three dead people. Sooner or later I'm going to get you for it.
Any intelligent woman would have made a dignified retreat, but this was New Jersey, where dignity always runs a poor second to the pleasure of getting in someone's face.
And then it gets so hot that they keep the supermarkets too cold. Hot, cold. Hot, cold. It gives me the runs.Mr. Landowsky
And here's the good part: He got a tongue could measure twenty-one inches. Bet Mrs. Giraffe likes that one.
Almost everybody I know has died, Grandma said. Bunch of wimps.
A gift card says I feel obligated to get you something, but I don’t care enough to put any effort into finding just the right gift.
A flock of cardinals in scarlet frocks with tall white miters on their heads came trailing behind him.
…)jestem półprzytomnym nieszczęściem, potykającym się o własne nogi.
Was pulled out of the water and wrapped in a blanket. Someone removed the cuffs. Ranger held me tight against him, his cheek against mine. You’re okay, he said. You’re safe.
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After major-league criminals who couldn’t be caught through legal means. So Nick remained a major-league criminal himself, secretly working for the FBI, and Kate remained a top FBI field agent, secret...
You got no control.''Excuse me?' my mother said. 'No control? I am the queen of control. Look at this family. I have a daughter in Disney World with Oogily-Woogily Smoochikins. I have a granddaughter...
You could sell it. He shrugged into the jacket. I thought of that, but I decided to give this a try first. See how it felt. A horn beeped from outside. That’s Lula, I said. She’s got the runs.
What’s up? I asked my mother. I just got fourteen phone calls about someone hitting Joseph’s Grandma Bella in the face with a chocolate cream pie when she was walking out of the funeral home. They sai...
What I lack in expertise I make up for with desperation and tenacity, because I only get paid when I catch someone.
To reach the cathedral’s entrance, Kate had to go down a narrow cobblestone street, a bottleneck of restaurants, coffeehouses, and Leonidas chocolate shops, all crammed tightly together and stuck to t...
Think of this as an adventure, Diesel said.I’m from Jersey. I get my adventure on the Turnpike.
There’s always tomorrow. Exactly, she said, finishing off her first doughnut, selecting a second. Maybe she wouldn’t starve to death, she decided. Maybe she’d eat herself into obesity and explode. Dea...
There was an air of satisfaction to the house at the end of the day. Maybe the day hadn't gone exactly right, but the day had been lived and the house had been there for its family.