Then we did the best we could, all we could. He was the enemy, Kimberly. took their lives. And God help both of us, but sometimes the enemy is simply that good.
The truth is, genius and depression have always gone hand in hand. Which was why I spent so many afternoons, sitting at the piano, playing and playing, because my father said my music soothed his spir...
The past has a will of its own. It wants to be heard.
People think they want knowledge. Until they have it, of course.
Pain is very useful. It warns you of danger, teaches you of hazards and provides consequences for your actions.
I'm from Georgia, honey. We consider all women dangerous; it's part of their charm.
I don’t know who I am, I say. No one does. Everyone spends their lives figuring that out, even people who’ve never been kidnapped.
Face it, you and Quincy have a genuine meeting of the minds. That's serious shit, Rainie. You can go an entire lifetime without finding anyone who matches like that. I know I have.
And if I'd once fallen hard for my husband, I fell even harder for my child. It was as if my entire life had been building to this one moment, my finest work, my greatest accomplishment, this tiny bun...
Alex said, his voice subdued, tense. So it would seem, D.D.
A perfect family, I think, is one that’s learned how to forgive.
When I got my very first phone call that I'd hit the 'New York Times' list, I had a small rush of 'I've made it!' But the next morning, it occurred to me I didn't know what it was, so I called my agen...
With his daughter. Incest? Rainie looked at Quincy incredulously. Jesus, SupSpAg, how do you sleep with that mind? I can’t be sure, Quincy said modestly, but it has all the classic signs. Domineering...
The front doors. Flashbulbs flashed. A roar rose up from the crowd at the sign of fresh activity. Then Rainie caught a new sound—the faint beating of helicopters bearing down upon them. The medevac ch...
Can’t do this. I suck at this. Which is why they’re making me go. Not to improve my swimming—who cares about that?—but to work on that whole playing-well-with-others thing. Another one of my broken bi...
According to Freud, the tie you pick, the ring you wear, the shirt you buy, all say something about you. Nothing is random, everything you do has intent.
The results are about as meaningful as a sixth toe - gives you something to look at, but doesn't do a damn thing.
Society is not filled with evil souls. But it is filled with people who are mobile, fractured, overworked, overweight, overcrowded, and overtired. That’s a potent combination, particularly for people...
Once, when she’d taken the initiative to rub down the window casings with ammonia, Jim had even complimented her. She’d beamed at him, married one year, already eight months pregnant and as eager as a...
In the wake of the recent shootings, several school districts have implemented ‘student profiling.’ School administrators have a checklist of ‘suspicious’ behavior to use to evaluate each student’s po...