Nice father figure. Him and Bill Cosby.
Murphy hung up and I said, to the still-open line, Hey, if you've got someone watching my place, could you call the cops if anyone tries to steal my Star Wars poster? It's an original.Then I vindictiv...
Why? I asked him tiredly. What would it have changed? What could you possibly have said that would have made a difference?That I was your brother, Harry, he said. That I loved you. That I knew a few t...
Lady Placida smiled. History seldom takes note of serendipity when it records events. And from what I have heard, I suspect an argument could be made that you very much did earn the title.Many women h...
They paid some madman who thought he was a decorator a lot of money to make the place look hip and unique. May be it's my lack of fashion sense talking, but I thought they should have held out for one...
You’re playing the creepy vibe a little hard, I said. Might as well go for broke, put on a black top hat and pipe in some organ music.
Her flawless pale skin was also spangled with gemstones. I don't know how they'd been attached, but they clung to her and sent little flashes of color glittering around the cavern when she moved. They...
I'm so pretty, it's hard for me to think of myself as intelligent.
Hospital waits are bad ones. The fact that they happen to pretty much all of us, sooner or later, doesn't make them any less hideous.
I know you haven't burned down any buildings in a while, she said, but if you start feeling the need...
If you turn into a hideous monster and I am sent to slay you, I will remember this and make it as painless as I can, out of respect for you.
But I don't understand God. I don't understand how he could see the way people treat one another, and not chalk up the whole human race as a bad idea.
There aren't any magical words, really. Words just hold the magic.
I made a sandwich out of things. I'm an American. We can eat anything as long as it's between two pieces of bread.
Nice try? Butters said. Mister, where I come from, there is no try.
My doubts vanished as well. Doubt was for things that did not know their purpose, and I knew mine.
My hair had grown out long and shaggy—not in that sexy-young-rock-star kind of way but in that time-to-take-Rover-to-the-groomer kind of way.
Mortimer Lindquist seemed to have finally given in to the inevitable. I'd seen him with a bad toupee, and with an even worse comb-over, but this was the first time I'd seen him sporting a full-on Char...
Courage is about learning how to function despite the fear, to put aside your instincts to run or give in completely to the anger born from fear. Courage is about using your brain and your heart when...
See, those who wield the primordial forces of creation have a long-running grudge with physics.
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