Shark you don’t see is always more dangerous than the one you do.
Loved the sound of the rain on the metal roof
Eager’ and ‘anxious’ aren’t the same, or how ‘disinterested’ doesn’t mean ‘uninterested.
We have years to converse with someone, to blurt and rant, to explain our desires and anger and regrets - and oh how we squander those moments.
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. —LOUIS-HECTOR BERLIOZ
The sky was overcast and the scenery was probably what it had been for dozens of years: bungalow farmhouses, shacks, trailers and motor vehicles in terminal condition but still functioning if the nurs...
The pain, you know. It’s one hell of a way to die.
The creatures I had seen were not men, had never been men. They were animals—humanised animals—triumphs of vivisection.
The Way Some People Die (1951), The Ivory Grin (1952), and The Far Side of the Dollar (1965) are particularly good novels. The Chill (1964)
Predate your telling me, T.T.
One said, Nobody paused in front of the house since we’ve been here. I slipped my ID case away. Any out-of-state tags? Didn’t notice any. Different answer from No. One
Now, I regarded my opponent carefully, as if we were sitting across from each other over a chessboard. Zagaev had a round head, a double chin that his beard obscured pretty well and bristly hair that...
Not dying isn’t the same as being alive. You’re only alive when you’re surviving. And you only survive when there’s a risk there’s something you can lose. The more you risk losing, the more you’re ali...
Maree opened her eyes wide. Wait, wait . . . I know you. She regarded me with a frown. I must have blinked in surprise. Had we met? The woman added, You’re on that reality show. The Vacation from Hell...
Love, son, is not manifest in the gift of gadgets or coddling foods or rooms of one’s own. Love shows itself in discipline and example and sacrifice—even giving up one’s life.
Islands—of times when you’re content, you don’t think about the loss. Now it’s like your world’s underwater. All of it. But the water goes down and the islands come up. The water’ll be there always bu...
I want to say something, I told her. It’s important. Under these circumstances, she said, with a dark grin, one wouldn’t really expect unimportant, now, would one?
I realized finally what the problem was, I told Maree. It wasn’t him. It was my wife. She was treating him like a normal human being. Polite, giving him the benefit of the doubt, humoring him. She was...
I criminalisti adorano i sospetti che soffrono di malattie.
I always carried in my breast or hip pocket a video camera disguised as a pen. It was linked to software whose algorithms alerted me that the body language of a person approaching was consistent with...