Her Pan-Cake makeup was cracking like a dried-out Dakota lake bed.
Does Raggedy Ann have a cotton crotch?
Vegetables in your restaurants are not so good. Better in Russia? Reynolds asked, interested. I should say so, Nadya said. Also better in France, in Germany, in Scandinavia, in Italy, in Israel.
Felt the dark finger of hypocrisy stroking his soul.
You’re saying the media is dangerous, immoral, and antidemocratic?
Lucas’s position was supine: that is, whenever he heard people arguing about it, he wanted to lie down and take a nap.
Never been there, the Middle East, Qatar said vaguely.
California is like a Nazi state with palm trees
A diplomatic passport for a Tal Zahavi, with a current photo of Yael-1. The same birth date as in the other passport. The interior must have had fifty entry stamps for European and South American coun...
Time passes, but sometimes it beats the shit out of you as it goes.
Nuts don’t come in bunches. Only grapes do.
Marlys was a sturdy woman in her fifties, white curls clinging to her scalp like vanilla frosting. She wore rimless glasses, a homemade red-checked gingham dress, and low-topped Nikes. Short-nosed and...
I don’t know. He was hit hard. Bleeding out his mouth, bright red blood, so he probably took a hit to his lung. He was alive when they took him into the operating room . . . Lucas gave him the details...
Did he ever ask you . . . or suggest to you . . . that he might want to pull some kind of dirty trick on Senator Smalls? Oh, no, he would never have done that, Fey said. I mean, he might have tried to...
The thing about Botox is that when you've had too much, you then have to fake reactions just to look human--and it's impossible to distinguish real fake reactions from fake fake reactions.
The press conference was held in a courtroom at the new county courthouse, a space that did its best to translate justice into laminated wood.
The local farmers, of course, were bitching because the bean and corn harvests were going to be huge and the prices depressed. Of course, if it hadn’t rained, they’d be bitching because their crops we...
She shook her head. I don’t know the details, exactly, but he was a lobbyist for the Minnesota Apiary Association. You mean, archery? Jeff asked. No, apiary, Daddy. You know, honey bees. There was som...
Here. Nobody’s
Though wickedly aware of his surroundings, he didn’t look around; looking around attracted the eye. People who saw him would ask themselves, Why’s that guy looking around like that? He’d learned not t...