What is the sound of one hand clapping? What is the weight of a single grain of sand? The answer is equal to my interest in the message you are about to leave so make it short. -- Mitch Hertzog's voic...
Well, I said, trying to keep my tone light as I walked over to put my arms around his neck, though I had to stand on my toes to do so. That wasn’t so bad, was it? You told me something about yourself...
We can go in like we were invited. Too bad we didn't bring that bottle of sparkling wine. It would have been a nice hostess gift, to throw them off.Jesse pulled into a space as close as he could get t...
Thrust into this dingy classroom we die like lampless moths locked into the desolation of fluorescent lights and metal desks. Ten minutes until the bell rings. What use is the quadratic formula in our...
This was in direct contrast to his younger brother, David (known to me privately as Doc, since he was also the most intelligent of my stepsiblings), who texted me a photo of himself in his dorm room a...
They've arrested Sebastian! For m-murder! You've g-got to stop them! He d-didn't do it! He can't have done it! He doesn't believe in murder! He's a v-vegetarian!
The first thing we did was change all the clocks so that her siblings thought it was bedtime, then put them to bed ignoring their plaintive protests that they were not tired. They wept themselves to s...
That guy back there had a gun, Christopher went on. Brandon Stark didn't even have a gun, and he managed to kidnap you just by threatening to do mean things to your friends. How do you think you're go...
Suze, your whole life, my dad went on, not without sympathy, you've always made the right decisions. Not necessarily the easiest ones. The right ones. Don't mess that up now, when you're facing what's...
Sometimes what you want is right in front of you. All you have to do is open your eyes and see it.
Someone, I was beginning to suspect, had a bit of a gangster complex.It wasn't really very hard to figure out who. I mean, I was guessing it wasn't Christopher's aunt Jackie.
Sister Ernestine said something very nasty about how maybe Miss Simon didn’t realize how unpleasant detention at the Mission Academy could be. I assured Sister Ernestine that if she was threatening co...
She'd realize Steve was her soul mate and that she would never love anyone as much as she loved him.
She went to the most expensive private girls' school in Connecticut. All they taught her there was how to fold doilies.Pointedly ignoring Alex, I said to John, I'm sure if you show me, I'll catch on....
Rule #10 If you say it enough times in your head, it will come true (sometimes).
Roses are red, violets are blue. You may not know it, but someone loves you.
Plus, I have two television sets. How many does Cal have? Oh, that’d be none. I asked. Yeah, Cal doesn’t believe in TV. Right. You know what I don’t believe in? People who don’t believe in TV.
People everywhere pray for a job where they can work from home, so I guess, going with the gratitude theme, I should be grateful for this opportunity. I wonder how, though, when people get one of thes...
One of her best paintings, Woman Enjoying a Quick Snack at Starbucks, is hanging in their dining room.
Not like this vision before us, who was shaking water out of his slightly overlong reddish-brownhair as he leaned over to lay down his board (revealing, as he did so, the fact that beneath hisbaggy sw...