Baby smuggling is a serious crime,' he said. 'There were thirty-six babies on that plane. We could charge you with thirty-six counts of kidnapping.'That, at least, got Second to look back at Mr. Reard...
Does FBI mean Federal Bureau of Idiots?
I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people you hate. But you must still dare to love. The rewards are worth far more than the risks.
But Mother, I don't want to go. It's just that...I have to. I can't spend the rest of my life hiding in the attic.[...]I don't want to be a burden[...]I want to do something with my life. Figure out w...
Why did everyone like that story so much when it wasn't true? Why was everyone so eager to believe it? Was it because, in real life, ever after's generally stink?
Yetta thought.
I like to know what I'm celebrating before I put on a party hat.
A thousand times today I've started to open my mouth, started to squeak out, Can you tell me...? But then I'd look into the front seat, at my mother's silent shaking, my father's grim profile, the mou...
That porch is a happy-looking place, and my father - burdened, stoop-shouldered, cadaverously thin - doesn't seem to belong on it.
Oh, Myr, he chokes out. I hate having to ask this of you...He glances towards the car again, and I crouch down in the shadows, hoping it's too dark for him to see whether the window is open or closed....
Because, he said in an even voice, you're used to winning, so you don't even think about how, every time there's a game, both sides get that 'rah, rah, team' speech from their coaches both sides hear...
But it’d be nice to have someone who cared about me, someone I could talk toabout anything, someone who’d tell me I was really special.
But, really, are there any guys out there who aren’t jerks? I don’t even know any grown-up men who aren’t jerks.
I like the fact that kids are willing to be imaginative and go along with me when I'm telling strange tales.
To quote a famous philosopher revered in my time 'But this is no different from regular life. When have you ever known what's going to happen in the future?' Wait a minute, Jonah thought. I said that....
I start to think, 'It's awful being too poor to even buy my own dress for homecoming.' But that's instantly swept away by another thought: 'I'm so lucky that someone cates enough to loan me a dress.
Somehow this change was even scarier than all the people downstairs, because Jordan
I was Pandora, bound and determined to open that box.
It’s like I’d been walking a tightrope with a big safety net underneath me, but I never really thought about the net until someone took it away. And then every single step scared me to death.
The first tree shudder and fall, far off in the distance. Then he heard his mother call out the kitchen window: Luke! Inside. Now. He had never disobeyed the order to hide. Even as a toddler, barely a...
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