In the past week or so, she was noticing some minor pains, small episodes of shortness of breath. Probably because she had a fairly decent-sized lifeform hanging off her spine, pummeling her lungs, pl...
And what is a marriage except adding A to B and hoping it equals an amount greater than the sum of its parts? Briefly, the promise of a new life almost made the math work. Except A was still A, and B...
It’s not easy, though, being brilliant. Nor being married to one.
YOU SPEND ENOUGH time chasing a dog to get back a precious black boot, you start to think like a dog. Spend the rest of your time chasing criminals, and you learn to think like a criminal.
For a bit, he picked up the paperbacks, thumbed the worn edges. Military thrillers. Books with clear right and wrong where the good guys always won in the end. Zero or hero. A part of Telly clearly wa...
The world is a complex place and only idiots and assholes think they know it all.
Sure, they all have iPods, smartphones, whatever. Generally speaking, it’s in our own best interest to keep some kind of electronic device in their hands. Otherwise they might talk to us.
It was not the past that broke you. - It was the empty future, the endless string of days filled with none of the people who mattered most.
Devouring lives by the dozen, from the innocent to the not-so-innocent. It hardly mattered to him. He took, because destroying others was the only time he wasn’t afraid.
A parent’s approval always mattered, regardless of age—
Wounds. No petechial hemorrhages, which rules out strangulation. No bleeding in the ears, which eliminates some brain traumas. We do have a large
When we’d magically assumed we could do better than our own parents, because we hadn’t walked in their shoes yet. We didn’t realize just how complicated and lonely even a good marriage can get.
Violence, the great equaliser. Cared nothing for money, class, occupation. One day, it simply found you.
The academic world is competitive. For ideas, grants, students, funding.
Special Agent Quincy had earned his stripes as one of the Bureau’s finest profilers.
Parents think the worst thing that can happen to their five-year-old is cancer. They’re wrong; the worst thing that can happen to their five-year-old is mental illness.
Men may be violent, Officer Dodge, but let's face it-women are cruel...
It wasn’t that strangers couldn’t hurt you. It was simply that the people you loved could do it so much better.
I was always proud of him. Even when he had to leave in the middle of birthday parties or missed them altogether. His job sounded so larger-than-life to me. Like something a superhero would do. People...
I never believed Jacob was human. But sometimes, like a lot of predators, he did a decent impression of one.