There was no part of this house that felt inviting. Paul's cold, calculating hand could be seen behind every choice. The concrete on the entryway floor was polished to a dark mirror straight out of Sn...
There is kindness in so many unexpected places
Then they were in Wyoming, then Nebraska, then Utah, then finally Illinois.
The world stops for you when you’re pretty. That’s why women spend billions on crap for their faces. Their whole life, they’re the center of attention. People want to be around them just because they’...
The warden’s office was all cheap paneling and institutional green furnishings. As Ben would’ve said, Think Cool Hand Luke. Every surface was either metal or fake wood. The warden was fat with a buzz...
That's how it's been happening since Jesus lost his sandals.
She was so quiet, but she noticed everything. Her eyes tracked the world like it was a book written in a language she could not understand
She took a deep breath and asked, I’m sorry, Captain. I’m feeling a bit discombobulated. Can you please start from the beginning and tell me what happened?
She told Rick, The world stops for you when you’re pretty. That’s why women spend billions on crap for their faces. Their whole life, they’re the center of attention. People want to be around them jus...
She had always believed—vehemently, with great conviction—that the only way to change the world was to destroy it.
She asked, Was that really your dinner—two hot dogs and a Krispy Kreme doughnut? Four doughnuts. What does your cholesterol look like? I guess it’s white like what they show in the commercials.
She asked him, Everything all right? It’s good right now. He rubbed her back with his hand. What did the shrink say? Claire waited until the bartender had returned to his corner. She said that I’m not...
People just dump their trash here and don’t even care about who has to pick it up. Like they think the trash fairy’s gonna do it or something.
Mrs. Scott, do you mind my asking why the alarm wasn’t on? This was from Mayhew. He had taken out a notebook and pen. His shoulders were hunched, as if someone had asked him to mimic a character from...
Marriages were perplexing animals, always changing, sometimes gentle, sometimes vicious.
Laura was not a lonely teenaged girl anymore. She was fifty-five years old. She was a mother, a cancer survivor, a businesswoman. This was her life, Not Nick,
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 in it. Guys are hitting on them all of the time. They ca...
It is a father’s job to love his daughter in the way that she needs to be loved.
I've always preferred crazy to stupid. Stupid can break your heart.
He was playing chess and she was sucking at checkers.