That is called paralipsis, or, from the Greek, apophasis, Rusty informed her. A rhetorical device by which you add emphasis to a subject by professing to say little or nothing about it. He was tapping...
The entire world gave men the responsibility for everything in it except for their dicks.
The two women switched to their native tongue. Kate tuned them out. She understood only half of what they were saying. As with most Americans, Dutch sounded to her more like a disease of the throat th...
There is kindness in so many unexpected places
There were a few things she knew about Will Trent. He was tall, at least six-three, with a runner's lean body and the most beautiful legs she had ever seen on a man. His mother had been killed when he...
This is electric, right? Lydia sounded annoyed. She’d always been angry around new things. Athens is an hour away. Really? I’ve never noticed that the eleventy billion times I’ve driven this very same...
Time to wake up. Rick muted the TV when a commercial came on. He slipped on his reading glasses and asked, What is the groundnut better known as? Lydia carefully rolled onto her back so the cat wouldn...
Time turns from a straight line into a sphere and it's not until later that you can hold it in your hand and look at all the different sides, and you think, Oh, now I remember --- this happened, then...
We think they’re real. Lydia tried to play devil’s advocate again. We think that girl looked like Anna Kilpatrick. We think that she was mutilated in the same way, based on what her mother said and di...
Will had found out the hard way that it’s nearly impossible to go to sleep with a flatulent Chihuahua sharing your pillow.
Will let out a long breath. She leaves me a lot. That's what she does. She leaves, and then she comes back. And then she stays some and then she leaves again.Where does she go?I have no idea.You've ne...
You don’t kidnap somebody if you love them. They come to you. They choose you. Not the other way around.
A large chifforobe wedged into a small closet that their mother said they’d have to pay Tom Robinson a nickel to bust up.
Children always have different parents, even in the same family.
Looked like a deformed monkey holding either a baseball bat or an erect penis in his three-fingered hand. Lena sighed, wondering what the fuck she was doing here. Maybe she should just go to the stati...
People found off-putting. You could not beat her at chess or Trivial Pursuit or even Monopoly. She knew all the questions on Jeopardy. She knew when to use who or whom. She could not abide misinformat...
Receiver,
Sometimes, your world turns upside down, and you need somebody to show you how to walk on your hands before you can find your feet again.
Stupid fucker.
When she got out of her car. Faith hadn’t realized that something was wrong until well after the music stopped. Will let her run through the story—the torn-up house, the dead man she’d found and the t...
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