Well, I like to know where I'm going before I try to get there. It's a mistake to try to execute a plan before you've thought of one, in my experience.
I usually like to interact with people who don't speak until it's necessary but I was intimidated by Carl's physique. I didn't feel inferior so much as incompatible. Carl existed on a plane where succ...
Warum wollen sie unbedingt, dass ich den Auftrag storniere?' Der Mann klingt auf einmal misstrauisch. 'Seid ihr überbucht?''Ich will Ihnen nur helfen. Wirklich, unsere Kurse sind grottenschlecht. Es i...
She decided to sleep with him and get it over with. It was the only way. He had become an annoying jingle, striking in the shower, or at work, or just as she was falling asleep. She had to at least ki...
What we're doing, or, I should say, what doing, since no one has taught me any good words, is dropping recipes into people's brains to cause a neurochemical reaction to knock out the filters. Tie the...
Du weißt doch noch, die Leute beschweren sich immer beim Management, dass ihre Work-Life-Balance nicht mehr stimmt. Also, am nächsten Montag haben sie eine Personalversammlung zu diesem Thema angesetz...
I’m Australian; I know how to use a shotgun!
She looked at her note cards and took a breath. "Why I Love America, by Hayley McDonald's. America is the greatest group of countries in the world because we have freedom. In countries like France, wh...
He had no intention of removing the tumor. It was the perfect solution to his dilemma: how to feed his body’s desire for intimacy. He was delusional, of course. There was no higher presence filling hi...
People resist a census, but give them a profile page and they'll spend all day telling you who they are.
Ich hatte zwar einen Laptop, doch er brauchte ewig zum Hochfahren – über eine Minute. Demnach war ich gezwungen, mir ohne Informationen über die Umweltbedingungen Kleider auszusuchen. Der helle Wahnsi...
It was always this way: The more people talked, the more they obscured. You didn't need to argue for the truth. You could see it.
I don't think you've been in love. Not recently, anyway. I'm not sure you remember what it's like. It compromises you. It takes over your body. Like a bareword. I think love is a bareword.
Companies claimed to be highly responsive, Jennifer thought, but you only had to chase a screaming man through their offices to realize it wasn't true.
There are stories — legends, really — of the steady job. Old-timers gather graduates around the flickering light of a computer monitor and tell stories of how the company used to be, back when a job w...
I love you,' she said. She nestled closer, her hand moving up the back of his neck. The wind lifted. 'Don't kill me,' he said. 'I'm not going to,' she said.
Somewhere along the line, this freedom stuff got way out of control.
Tell me what you think love is! I seriously want to know!Okay, Eliot said. It's defining yourself through the eyes of another. It's coming to know a human being on a level so intimate that you lose an...
She’s such a bitch, Tina says, which I find a little contradictory, but overall quite true. She’s got to be in charge of everything.I sit next to her. Well, I guess. But in business, that’s leadership...
She didn't really enjoy reading but she liked how the books were clues. Each one a piece in a puzzle. Even when they didn't fit together, they revealed a little more about what kind of picture she was...