She was fifteen years old, going on thirty-five, Doc, and she told me she was eighteen, she was very willing, I practically had to take to sewing my pants shut. Between you and me, uh, she might have...
She slides through the door with a gust of cold and locks the door behind her and I see her fingers trail across the polished steel—tip of each finger the same color as her lips. Funny orange. Like th...
Reality is greater than the sum of its parts, also a damn sight holier. And the lives of such stuff as dreams are made of may be rounded with a sleep but they are not tied neatly with a red bow. Truth...
Oregon October, when the fields of timothy and rye-grass stubble are being burned, the sky itself catches fire. Flocks of wrens rush up from the red alder thickets like sparks kicked from a campfire,...
One of you guys, for cryin’ out loud! This is where you get the edge, don’t you see that? We have to do this—or we’re whipped! Don’t a one of you clucks know what I’m talking about enough to give us a...
I knew even before we got it rolling that this here was the type asshole that subscribed to magazines like the Nation and Atlantic and probably even read them, and that I didn't stand a snowball's cha...
He’d traveled in a straight line and completed a circle.
He wants something from me. He doesn’t know that the only thing I have left is the hollow of something gone
Even a man who is pure of heart And says his prayers at night May turn to a wolf when the wolfbane blooms And the autumn moon is bright.
Doctor … I’m going mad; the final complete flip, it’s swooping down out of the hills at me! He had only smiled, condescendingly and therapeutically. No, Leland, not you. You, and in fact quite a lot o...
Besides, there are some things that can’t be the truth even if they did happen.
Because he knows you have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep yourself in balance, just to keep the world from running you plumb crazy.
Because he knows you have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep yourself in balance, just to keep the world from running you plumb crazy. He knows there’s a painful side;
And the forest at night might be beautiful, but if it was dark how was a man to know that?
All that five thousand kids lived in those five thousand houses, owned by guys that got off the train. The houses looked so much alike that, time and time again, the kids went home by mistake to diffe...
All right. Then this is the whole shebang, boys, right here underfoot. Give up and admit it.
A wind came up and broke the sea into green and silver chunks, like a field of glass and chrome, and the boat began to rock and pitch about more...The waves got bigger as we got closer to shore, and f...
Younger patients, known as 'Acutes' because the doctors figure them still sick enough to be fixed...
Making it more than what it is lessens it. Just to see it clear is plenty.
And as this need grows more intense so does a sensation of movement, speed to come, impending declaration—The past is funny, Viv; it never seems to let things lie, finished. It never seems to stay in...