First you must have the images. Then come the words. —Robert James Waller. Images. I had seen that word before—at least six times before on my annual reading sojourn to the sheriff’s office. The word...
Anybody could be smart. It took a special somebody to be clever.
Expected him to look like a cross between Colonel Sanders and Foghorn Leghorn.
To all the librarians in the world on behalf of all the kids y’all helped grow up to be writers
I’m fine. Will put his hand on Amanda’s foot again. He could feel a steady pulse near her ankle. He’d worked for this woman most of his career but still knew very little about her. She lived in a cond...
Напиваться - это для слабых, это выход для людей, которым не хватает сил справиться с собственной жизнью, крепко стоять на ногах. Пьянство - это побег.
Repeated Jasper’s words, because in the future, if she ever wavered about never talking to her brother again, she wanted to remember in detail everything he had said. She told him, I have the paperwor...
War was nothing but a grand experiment. Behind every senseless tragedy, there was some guy with a clipboard.
They’ll only get your goat if you show them where you keep your hay.
She's just come undone, her mother had whispered on the phone to her aunt Bella. It was an old colloquialism, the sort of thing you didn't think people still said. The phrase fit Sara so completely th...
My point is that you see these people in a way that I will never see them. Your experiences are no longer my experiences. I can’t guide you any longer because I don’t know where you’re going.
It’s the truth. I’m sorry to be blunt about it, but girls don’t like guys who are doormats. Especially pretty girls, because there’s no novelty to it. Guys are hitting on them all of the time. They ca...
Dash was a stupid man’s idea of how a smart man sounded
He was crying, but then she realized that he was probably trying to regain his composure so that Andy wouldn’t be even more worried when she saw him. She had seen Gordon cry once, and only once, befor...
Chairs were padded. The tables looked clean. There were napkin dispensers on the tables instead of rolls of cheap
They had been arguing about something that had seemed desperately important to Claire at the time but now she couldn’t remember the topic or even when the argument had occurred. Last week? Last month?...
That doesn’t sound invisible to me. I’m saying it wrong, then. Lydia searched for a better way to explain. She was always holding herself back. She was cocaptain, not captain. She could’ve dated the q...
Tears had rolled down his cheeks, one long drip after another, like condensation on the side of a glass.
People did not change their basic, core personalities.
People did not change their basic, core personalities. Their values tended to stay the same.