Wilbur Larch knew that freedom was an orphan’s most dangerous illusion, and when he finally heard from Homer, he scanned the oddly formal letter, which was disappointing in its lack of detail. Regardi...
Why do you guys want to take all the mystery away? Isn't the mystery an exciting part of sex?
What woman wants to hear someone say what her husband is thinking? What guy is going to be happy hearing what’s on his wife’s mind?
What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us are wrapped up in parentheses.
Well, that boy’s voice, my grandmother told me, that boy’s voice could bring those mice back to life! And it occurs to me now that Owen’s voice was the voice of all those murdered mice, coming back to...
We tend to think that if you don't know where you're goin, you don't belong where you are.
Uma sociedade democrática condena as pessoas ao acidente da concepção? - esbravejava o Dr. Larch. - O que somos nós...? Macacos? Se esperamos que as pessoas sejam responsáveis por seus filhos, então é...
This prevented Elaine from making up any stories about whomever I was seeing at the time, man or woman. Therefore, no one was falsely accused of shitting in the bed.
This is a real-life story, Owen, I said. It’s not a mystery novel. In real life, I meant, there was nothing written that the missing father couldn’t
Therefore, there must be a first mover existing above all—and this we call God.
The code of small towns is simple but encompassing: if many forms of craziness are allowed, many forms of cruelty are ignored. Piggy
That's okay, I said. We're writers. We make things up.
THINK OF HARDY AS A MAN WHO WAS ALMOST RELIGIOUS, AS A MAN WHO CAME SO CLOSE TO BELIEVING IN GOD THAT WHEN HE REJECTED GOD, HIS REJECTION MADE HIM FEROCIOUSLY BITTER. THE KIND OF FATE HARDY BELIEVES I...
She felt if she ever had children she would love them no less when they were twenty than when they were two; they might need you more at twenty, she thought. What do you really need when you're two? I...
Sell my old clothes - I'm off to heaven
Ronkers was getting out of the elevator on the first floor when the intercom paged 'Dr Heart'. There was no Dr Heart at University Hospital. 'Dr Heart' meant someone's heart had stopped.'Dr Heart?' th...
Ni siquiera una sorpresa,
My life is a reading list.
LIBERACE!' Owen would have cried. 'WHO WOULD HAVE BELIEVED IT POSSIBLE? LIBERACE! KILLED BY WATERMELONS!
Irgend jemand sollte Mrs. Reagan sagen, dass keineswegs die jungen Leute - nicht einmal die Drogenkonsumenten unter ihnen - für die gewichtigsten Probleme, vor denen die Welt steht, verantwortlich sin...