Ragged piece of thin glass jutted out of the socket, all that was left of the
One of the odd things about middle age...was the strange decisions a man discovers he’s made by not really making them.
That she should so puzzled him that he even questioned his behavior, entertaining, albeit briefly, the idea that he might in some fashion be responsible for the apparition of his once loving wife, who...
Movies have to handle time very efficiently. They're about stringing scenes together in the present. Novels aren't necessarily about that.
The sad, fucking truth was that no matter who you are, you never, ever, get your fill.
The best she was able to do was to reflect that people invariably exhibited the very worst side of their flawed natures when invited to put their thoughts into writing, especially when the invitation...
They're around back, she calls down when Julie and I get out. Planning their strategy. Good for them, I say, confident that no strategy that isn't grounded in chaos theory is likely to work against a...
Truth be told, I'm not an easy man. I can be an entertaining one, though it's been my experience that most people don't want to be entertained. They want to be comforted. And, of course, my idea of en...
Who but an English professor would threaten to kill a duck a day and hold up a goose as an example?
Aware, as always, that the truth isn't much of substitute for a good answer.
If you paid me for work, continued Max, whose rhetoric was more sophisticated than you might expect from a man with food in his beard, I wouldn't have to feel worthless. There's not law says old peopl...
Not giving a shit, she decided, is like the defrost option on a car's heater that miraculously unfogs the windshield, allowing you to see where you're headed.
Like many men addicted to sports, Clive Sr. was also a religious man.
The truth is, we never know for sure about ourselves. Who we'll sleep with if given the opportunity, who we'll betray in the right circumstance, whose faith and love we will reward with our own. Only...
A plot, I used to remind my students, is not merely a sequence of events: A followed by B followed by C followed by D. Rather, it's a series of events linked by cause and effect: A causes B, which cau...
A silly lie. A lie so small and to so little purpose that it suggested to Miles a way of life, a strategy for confronting the world, and this was further reason—if any was needed—to doubt the truth of...
She looked like a woman who had spent her whole life waiting in line.
Alas, he himself was a man too easily encouraged, too completely seduced by hope, only to be devastated by disappointment. He’d been born to privilege, conditioned to expect things would go well, and...
Tick's strategy for dealing with lying adults is to say nothing and watch thee lies swell and constrict in their throats. when this happens, the lie takes on a physical life of its own and must be eit...
It was hard to imagine him in love. I knew that he and my mother must have once felt passion, since that was what love entailed, but I was grateful that over time the madness had evolved into somethin...
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