You can’t have made-up things in made-up stories. But in real life, you can.
Erik left the church and walked back out through the streets. The people coursing through them did not frighten him any more because he realized their movements and the sound of their thousand voices...
Everything you do is a one-way street.
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...
I hurtled down a path through the middle of a park, past shrubbery so refined it was probably entitled to vote.
I was sixteen back then, and I was going to a party with my girlfriend and Earl. Earl was driving, and his new squeeze was in the passenger seat. I was in the back, holding hands with mine. That was s...
If people knew that I really am what I say I am,' he said, 'you know they'd never forgive me.' 'Don't worry,' I said, 'Your lack of a secret is safe with us.
The greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all. No other loss can occur so quietly; any other loss—an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife...
In the story, an old man tells his grandson that he has a fight going on inside him, and has done his whole life. Between two wolves. One is a bad wolf –a wolf consumed with anger, regret, resentment...
Some stories, some people, deserve their length and span. They merit a novel-length treatment, have things to tell and other lives to illuminate.
She lost her fury. He’d had none. That’s how you win, in the end.
The realest and scariest monsters are internal demons, the specters of regret and guilt and lack of fulfillment, awareness of the entropic end of love, or the first shivers occasioned by the realizati...
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...
Your story can change. Overnight.
Know how much difference a night’s sleep can make, that what seems ungovernable and world-breaking at one A.M. can be made to feel like someone else’s dream if you put seven hours of unconsciousness b...
Everything feels like a badly designed computer game in which you fall into a pit that doesn't kill you but from which there's absolutely no escape. For a while you kick against the walls, but the wal...
The future is hungry and unkind. It’ll gobble you up, little girl. It will eat your heart.
Imagine, if you will, a watchmaker’s workshop. In fact, please imagine one whether you wish to or not.
Bodies are great, and I wouldn't go anywhere without mine, but sometimes they're so disappointing. If
We all inhabit the same place during the day, at night each one of us is hurled into a several world. Well,
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