Reductio ad Hitlerum. Claire couldn’t stop quoting Paul. It’s when you compare someone to Hitler to win an argument.
Paul still had feelings for Claire—at least inasmuch as he was capable of feeling anything. He had put the pillow under her head. He’d slid her wedding ring back on her finger. He had taken off her sh...
Only...ever...you.
Monte Carlo was blocking the driveway. The trashcan was still on the curb, so he dragged it up to the garage. The motion lights came on, blinding him. Will held up his hand to block the light as he un...
Lydia asked, Do you have a problem with drugs and alcohol? Claire struggled to return the glass to the floor. Yes. The problem is that I don’t like them very much.
Kantor’s Andersonville, she said, adding, It’s a first edition.
Jeffrey never understood how people could think a dead person was just sleeping. Death changed the air, charged it with something thick and unsettling.
In her defense, her helicoptering tended to revolve around making sure that Dee could take care of herself. LEARN HOW TO TAKE OUT THE TRASH OR I WILL KILL YOU. LOVE MOM.
In Abigail’s experience, women certainly loved their mothers, but there was always some kind of thing that lived between them. Envy? History? Hate? This thing, whatever it was, made girls gravitate to...
I told her, I’m Wayne, and this is—
How had her mother fallen in with these idiots?
Her subway card was given to a homeless woman who had thanked her, then screeched that she was a fucking whore.
He saw the towel in her hands. I've got this.Let me help.I think you've helped enough. She thought he was going to leave it at that, but Will told her, It's been worse today than usual.Stress is a con...
He had given weight to her life, tied her down to the world when her natural inclination had always been to float above everything, as if it were happening to someone else.
He always took lateness as being rude. It said to the other person that their time was more valuable than yours.
Dušo, znam da imaš posla i znam da će biti opasno, ali u što god da se danas uvališ, neće biti ni približno tako opasno po život kao ono što će se dogoditi ako mi ikad više napraviš ono što si mi radi...
Claire closed her eyes. Her breathing got deeper. She was awake—she could still hear Lydia greedily thumbing through pages—but she was also asleep, and in that sleep, she felt herself dipping into a d...
Clair watched the young man pour Paul's Scotch with a previously unseen professionalism. Her wedding ring, her gentle brush-offs, and her outright rejection had been minor obstacles compared to the bi...
Because I want you to stay at Rick’s tonight. Lydia paused. Because I said so. She paused again. Sweetheart, I know you’re an adult, but adults are like vampires. The older ones are much more powerful...
All you could do was wait for death to make you inconsequential. Frank