God will break your heart.
Sailing is the perfect antidote for age, Reyes. Everything you do on a sailboat is done slowly and thoughtfully. Most of the time, an old body is entirely capable of doing whatever needs to be done wh...
It was then that she experienced an instant of unprecedented clarity, a moment of wholly unanticipated certainty that God was real. The sensation fled almost as quickly as it came but left in its wake...
Did you think you were the only one? Is it possible that you are so arrogant? he asked, in tones of wonderment. Sandoz was blinking rapidly now. Did you think you were the only one ever to wonder if w...
[Emilio] felt once more the strangely visceral thrill of trying to disprove a hypothesis he suspected was robust.
An insouciant flip of the wrist—
Until you get the measure of your own soul, Jim, don't be quick to condemn a priest, or anyone else for that matter. I'm not scolding you, sweetheart, she said hurriedly. It's just that, until you've...
Like we say back home, when you find a turtle settin’ on top of a fencepost, you can be pretty damn sure he didn’t get there on his own.
Deus vult, mes amis, Marc Robichaux called cheerfully from the galley. God likes it that way.
And she laughed, a full octave, descending from high C like chimes.
There is simply no alternative. We have to know them.
Ringo's chuckle got tangled up with a cough. He tossed back a shot, cleared his throat, and said, Politics, from the Latin. , meaning 'many.' meaning 'bloodsucking little bastards.
My experience is that many things are not as bad as I thought they would be.
But, Jimmy! What unnatural words. Always and forever! Those aren’t human words, Jim. Not even stones are always and forever.
Bein' born is craps, he decided. He glanced at Morg and let loose that sly, lopsided smile of his. How we live is poker.
The past was not dead but alive, and important by virtue of the very invisibility of its influence.
Privileged to share in the athletic power of a large and dangerous animal willing to be controlled by the small, frail strength of a mere human being.
You ever hear that old joke about the guy who jumped off the Empire State Building? D.W. asked her. Yeah. All the way down, you could hear him say, ‘So far, so good. So far, so good. So far, so good.’...
Within himself, Tom Fisher smiles serenely. It's almost too easy. Promise these morons something they want. Let them believe in it. Then take it away. And tell them who's to blame.
Wide is the gate and broad is the path that leads to destruction and many go that way