When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, is the truth.
Things that are different, things that don’t fit into our own typical surroundings, do tend to set off some sort of subliminal trigger in most people. Your pulse beats faster, you become more aware of...
The heel of my white kidskin boot ripped a six-inch gash in the hem of my skirt as I whipped around the corner.
The cake was sinfully decadent, dripping with chocolate, exactly the way a birthday cake should be.
Take that and go play. I don’t care if it takes a year. Get the boy out of your system and then get back here. We’ve got work to do. At the time, I thought Saul meant I needed to take some time to gro...
So, you’re sort of like a reverse Shawn Spencer? The guy on that show from a while back who claimed to be psychic, but he’s really just seeing the stuff other people could see, if they paid closer att...
Money is power and you ought to be reasonably ambitious to have it.
Katherine leaned forward, pushing the glowing
I’d pegged you as cute-but-boring. But it looks like Kate’s little pet has claws.
It’s a hard lesson in life, but you have to accept that some things are out of your hands. Otherwise, you’ll never know a single minute of peace. You mend what you can, and you let the
I think it’s important to know you’re wanted, maybe even needed, don’t you? Gives you somethin’ to hold on to when you’re off in a strange place.
I think it’s important to know you’re wanted, maybe even needed, don’t you? Gives you somethin’ to hold on to when you’re off in a strange place. Kinda like you are now, right, child?
How much time is wasted today training children to perform a variety of skills that they not only will never use but would never even consider using?
Holy trinity of Creole cuisine—bell peppers, celery, and onions—while
What ladder? There’s a fire escape? I hadn’t even considered that possibility—I mean, really, what homicidal maniac would include fire escapes in the design plan for his torture castle?
Things settled into a lazy pattern. School, chores, and long hours down by the river. Kiernan talked about the books he read sometimes, even loaned me a few. But I liked it better when he read to me o...
That surprised me. Not that it wasn’t a damn good game. We saw it again, in fact, after he took up with Kate. Not that either of them paid much attention to what was going on down on the field. That w...
I’d like to think those laws will be overturned, but the Supreme Court is as useless as tits on a bull these days.
If your faith is so shaky that it can be undermined by books that challenge it, then something is rotten at the core. And
If you look back through history, most visionaries are one step away from madmen. I