Dude, this is a stoner conversation and we're not even high
Didn’t they teach you how to go about research in that school of yours? No. But I can recite ‘The Battle Hymn of the Republic’ while making martinis. I weep for the future. There’s where the martinis...
Corro porque puedo, porque debo.Porque quiero ver hasta dónde puedo llegar antes de tener que parar.
Chin held high, Miss Ohio beamed at an imagined crowd. I want to be a motivational speaker. What are you going to motivate people to do? Smile still in place, she cut her eyes at Adina. You know. Moti...
But sons are a different matter to a man. More a duty than an indulgence.
Because I’m not enough, she thought. That was the terrible echo shouting up at her: Fraud, fraud, fraud. She got drunk and talked too much and danced on tables. She had a temper and a sharp tongue, an...
Barry, let me give you a history lesson, Ladybird Hope-style. When the Vietnamese got kids hooked on drugs and we had to fight a war to stop it, did we give in? No! We said, Crack is wack! and we made...
Any librarian or scholar will tell you: Close is not the same as accurate.
And sometimes I just don't want to sparkle.
And just as I begin to believe that all is well, there is some subtle change in the light. The room takes its true shape. I fight to go back to that blissful ignorance, but it is too late. The dull pa...
And afterward, in the small cabin, they'd do this, this tangle of bodies, this blurring of the edges that kept people distant and lonely.
All things are possible.
Absence is a curious thing. When friends are absent, they seem to loom ever larger, till the lack of them is all one can feel.
Dreams were dreams and reality was reality and she felt people were better off understanding the difference.
We're never prepared for how much we love our children, for how much we wish we could protect them by being perfect.
Bueno..., el viernes pasado, cuando los dos estábamos junto a los buzones...- ¿Sí? Evie movió las cejas insinuantemente.- Me puse muy cerca de él...- Ajá.- Y le dije, así, sin más: «Qué día más bonito...
My stomach aches a new. blasted inconvenience. What do young men have to mark their entry into adulthood? Trousers, that's what. Fine, new trousers. I despise absolutely everyone just now.
Without further warning, the sky opens up and cries.
With each shimmy, the bugle beads on their scandalously revealing costumes swung and shook. It was the sort of display Evie knew her mother would have found appalling—an example of the moral decay of...
They see her differently now, as somebody. And isn't that what everyone wants? To be seen?