Talented wisecracker.…
Henry Mercado, Purcell knew, was comforted by thinking he was protecting the Holy Grail from the Antichrist, or whatever, and he could go to his martyrdom happy in the knowledge that when he met Jesus...
Everyone looked pensive, which is good cover-up for clueless.
But that's all hindsight. That evening, my mind was cloudy, and my good judgment was influenced by my need to prove something. It goes to show you, you shouldn't stay out too late during the week.
As with real estate, what matters with bullet holes is location, location, location.
Arms, and the other pulled the camera from
And there was that pregnant silence in the air, the silence between a husband and wife who have just had words, and it is unlike any other silence except perhaps the awful stillness you hear between t...
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There’s hell, there’s darkness, there is the sulphurous pit; burning, scalding, stench, consumption!
The window on the right featured contemporary bestselling authors like Brad Meltzer, James Patterson, David Baldacci, Nelson DeMille, and others who make more money writing about what I do than I make...
The danger’s passed, the wrong is righted; the veteran’s ignored, the soldier’s slighted.
Somewhere in between the cynical lies and a naïve trust in the human race was the true human condition: complex and capable of anything from heroism and self-sacrifice to betrayal and murder.
So, this guy walks into the bar and says to the bartender, ‘You know, all lawyers are assholes.’ And a guy at the end of the bar says, ‘Hey, I heard that. I resent that.’ And the first guy says, ‘Why?...
She asked me, Was your divorce nasty? Not at all. The marriage was nasty.
Pravda, as you know, means ‘truth,’ and Izvestia means ‘news,’ and I’ve heard it said that there is no news in the Truth and no truth in the News.
Plagiarism is the sincerest form of flattery
Most guys arrived here normal, and they were shocked and sickened by the behavior of the guys who'd been here a while. Then within a few weeks, they'd stop being shocked, and within a few months a lot...
In our pursuit of fidelity within a twenty-year-old marriage, Susan and I, in addition to the historical romances, sometimes talk about a premarital lover as part of our foreplay. I read in a book onc...
In America if you’re poor, you’re worse than a criminal. You’re nobody.
I thought again of how Tobin had already killed five good people and was about to be the cause of two more dying. I couldn’t believe that this little turd had actually caused all this death and misery...