Nor did she like society’s way of presuming she was unhappy because she had not found the right guy.
I can feel the competition here, very much like the first few weeks of law school when we were terribly concerned with each other's initial progress. I nod at a few acquaintances, silently hoping they...
I've loved you all my life. Even before we met. Part of it wasn't even you. It was just a promise of you.
It was the eyes, the cold black eyes with layers of black wrinkles around them. Great eyes. Unforgettable eyes. His hair was white and thin on top with thickets around the ears, and the whiteness cont...
Life on the run was filled with dreams, some at night during sleep, real dreams, and some when the mind was awake but drifting. Most were terrifying, the nightmares of the shadows growing bolder and l...
James Lee Burke or
Rich folks can tolerate almost anything, but not rejection.
Poverty is a great equalizer
No star fades faster than that of a high school athlete.
There are few things in life worse than a long-winded lawyer.
There’s an old adage in bad trial lawyering that when you don’t have the facts, do a lot of yelling.
The mother of a trophy wife is not automatically a trophy mother-in-law.
He's a two-faced, cutthroat, dirt-dumb, chicken shit, slimy, little bastard with a bright future in politics.
Quitting is not the answer. Life is not fair, and you can't quit every time something unfair happens to you.
You’re old. You’re senile. You’re too calm about this. Something must be wrong…Wonderful. I’ll pull out my hair and chase butterflies around the room.
The theory was simple: If a man had enough sense to accumulate a bunch of cash, then he would certainly make a worthy U.S senator.
Four rehabs meant a fifth was somewhere down the road.
I'm being followed so much I'm causing traffic jams.
I've had nine of my books adapted to film, and almost all were enjoyable. I've been very lucky with Hollywood, and look forward to more movies being adapted. But I don't get involved in that process....
In the United States we spend $40,000 a year to incarcerate each prison inmate and $8,000 to educate each elementary school student.
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