He turned away, walked to the kitchen, and stopped at the threshold. The bloodstain was still there, and even if he replaced the floorboards, he would always know it had been there. He had seen her st...
He made eye contact but he kept it like casual observation, not a fixed stare. He held his arms at his sides, not only because it was less threatening, but they'd be able to fend off a blow. He cleare...
Ha! She has a dark side, my sister. Nobody believes it, but she used to torture me when I was little.
Good people can’t imagine evil. It catches us by surprise, and it always will.
Cynthia’s face popped onto the screen, a gorgeous, blue-eyed blonde with a dazzling smile. Mindy thought of the baby and how pretty he or she would have been.
Bennie knew her mother had loved her long after she was well enough to say so, though she barely remembered her mother’s caring for her as a child. Bennie guessed her mother had performed the routine...
Alice was back, the landlord was evicting her, and she was out of dog food. She hadn’t felt so totally at a loss since the day her mother had passed. And her employees were staring at her, momentarily...
Petition. Will they get caught? No, the record doesn’t reflect what time papers are filed. The docket shows only that they were filed the same day. But that they’re fifteen minutes apart? It doesn’t s...
Looked back at Bennie in panic as Declan tugged him away. By the time they’d rounded the corner,
You’re my best friend. I understand you and appreciate you, and can make you happy the rest of your life, I promise you that.
There were twenty questions, and forty was the top score. I scoreda thirty- eight, which means I would be graduating with honors ifI majored in being a sociopath.
The look he was going for was Friendly Suburban Dad, because that’s what he was, but he suspected he’d achieved onlyCialis Guy.
See the child, not the cancer. Then you’ll be happy when you visit, not sad.
I’ve learned that you don’t stop loving someone just because they die. And you don’t stop loving someone who’s dead just because you start loving someone else. I know this violates the natural law tha...
I’m neither your friend nor your frenemy, unless you have what I want.In that case, I’m not only your enemy, I’m your nightmare.
If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.
If I stopped talking after I made my point, I'd never say anything.
Don’t think on what they say, because you don’t have to get yourself right with them. You have to get yourself right with you.
Because the thing about love is that we can't control whether we get it, but we can control whether we give it.
Bad things are like waves. They're going to happen to you, and there's nothing you can do about it. They're part of life, like waves are a part of the ocean. If you're standing on the shoreline, you d...