Always true to the code, she said.
All at once he feels weary of ganefs and prophets, guns and sacrifices and the infinite gangster weight of God. He's tired of hearing about the promised land and the inevitable bloodshed required for...
Каждая вселенная, и наша личная в том числе, берет свое начало в разговоре.
‘Forget about what you are escaping from,’ he said, quoting an old maxim of Kornblum’s. ‘Reserve your anxiety for what you are escaping to.’
Burned off their mutual contempt by abusing the counter help. My
Breath, pressed an ear against his chest and took the poor fellow’s pulse. While he worked, he asked about the
You mendacious sons of bitches, the mahout said
You can’t walk me to school, Tommy said. He came into the kitchen, sat down before his plate, and stared at it, waiting for Sammy to pile it with eggs. Mom, you can’t possibly. I would die. I would ab...
Titus, operating under the terms of the more modest package that he had negotiated with Gwen, which included room, board, and at the end of his own Candy Land path, the ambiguous pink-frosting-roofed...
The obscure unease that Pluto has always inspired, a dog owned by a mouse, daily confronted with the mutational horror of Goofy.
The midnight disease is a kind of emotional insomnia; at every conscious moment its victim—even if he or she writes at dawn, or in the middle of the afternoon—feels like a person lying in a sweltering...
The fundamental truth: a baseball game is nothing but a great slow contraption for getting you to pay attention to the cadence of a summer day.
The fathers were standing around in their baseball caps, in a knot, smoking and talking. They looked over at Kohn’s van, trying to identify it. Many of them would have known each other all their lives...
The evening laid its cool palm against his weary brow as if feeling for a temperature.
The elegant black-and-white ship, all 24,170 tons of it, loomed like a mountain in a dinner jacket.
The daily work you put into rearing your children is a kind of intimacy, tedious and invisible as mothering itself. There is another kind of intimacy in the conversations you may have with your childr...
The April night on which Sammy felt most aware of the luster of his existence - the moment when, for the first time in his life, he was fully conscious of his own happiness - was a night that he would...
That's why baseball is more like life than other games. Sometimes I feel like that's all I do in life, keep track of my errors.
That was how troubles arrived, mourners rushing the bar at a wake. Though they came in funereal flocks, they could be dismissed only one at a time, and that was how she would have to proceed.
Smoke had left the eye sockets of houses with black eyebrows of astonishment. Cats
