Being me is not a fate everyone would enjoy. There are risks, and frequent disappointments. I'm not all that keen on the arrangement myself, to be honest.
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When you meet someone you love, then you change for good. That’s why the other person will never know or understand the earlier you, and why you can never change back. And why, when that person starts...
The kind of woman who would breeze into the bathroom while I was shaving and say, Yo, shithead—you going to fix that shelf like you said, or do I have to take you back to Husbands-R-Us?
Disbelief is easy, Kane. It’s faith that takes courage, and character.
You still search for Narnia, even though by then you're too old to believe in it and it doesn't want you there.
You have to accept gifts occasionally, because there are some things you can’t give yourself
Would be on top of me like a ton of heavy things.
When you let it get personal, the cost becomes personal too. You’re opening your own heart here. You sure you want to do that?I’d do it for free. For the bullshit you are, and have always been.Disbeli...
There is no beginning. We are always in the middle.
Hannah's dad had a habit of never walking home the same way twice, with the intention of giving her a sense of how it all fitted together. What he'd actually achieved was to fail to provide a dependab...
Hell is not a place. It’s not a noun, child. It’s a verb.
How many times have you tried to talk to someone about something that matters to you, tried to get them to see it the way you do? And how many of those times have ended with you feeling bitter, resent...
Though we all inhabit the same place during the day, at night each one of us is hurled into a several world.
When you’re a child the world forbears you, allows you your flights of imagination, your feelings of specialness. But sooner or later the privileges are withdrawn, and all you’re left with is a stunne...
I cannot remember when I became exhausted instead of merely tired.
I caught one last glimpse of her face, howling something at me.There were too many vowels in what she said, and they were in an unkind order. (Substitutions)
When you let it get personal, the cost becomes personal too. You’re opening your own heart here. You sure you want to do that?
Is she dead?" called Zenda.Sort of," I shouted, "And the pizza's completely fucked too.
I realised suddenly that I was thirty-four and not making a very good job of it.
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