Zeke doesn’t talk, said Lena. Why not? asked Arlo. Lena shrugged. He never said. She pointed to the front of the crowd. Brice is about to start.
Your grandparents are English?Grandfather is,but Grandmere is French. And my other grandparents are American,of course.Wow.You really are a mutt.St. Clair smiles. I'm told I take after my English gran...
You've spent all this time afraid to talk about what was going on between you two, but if you'd ever bothered to ask him, you would have discovered that he wasn't worth it.
You know, I've heard you actually have to have sex to get pregnant.
Why? His voice is suspicious. Are you two going out now?Yeah, we set up our first date right after he asked me to marry him. Please. We're just friends.
Where's your hat?He squints at me. Mer? Is that you? Do I need my scarf? Will it be cold, Mummy?
What...what about when I'm married?We'll buy a cot. Your husband can sleep on that when he visits.
Victor Noir. He was a journalist shot by Pierre Bonaparte, St. Clair says, as if that explains anything. He pulls The Hat up off his eyes. The statue on his grave is supposed to help...fertility.His w...
There's no reason to suffer this flight alone when we can suffer it together.
The senses have their limits, and we can never know how short they fall in revealing to us the truth of a vision, a scent, a sound.
The person she liked best didn’t like her enough to want more of her, and she didn’t want to pretend that wasn’t awful.
The first thing I notice is his hair - it's the first thing I notice about anyone. It's dark brown and messy and somehow both long and short at the same time. I think of the Beatles, since I've just s...
The door opens with a rusted jingle, and an animatronic Santa insults my moral virtue three times. Ho, ho, ho.
The Penny Dreadfuls emerge,pulsating with excitement and energy,from...the staff room. Okay. So it's not as glamorous as emerging from a backstage, but they do look GREAT.Well,two of them do.The bassi...
Sé que no eres perfecta. Pero son las imperfecciones de una persona lo que la hace perfecta para alguien más...
So will your father object to me? Because I'm not American? I mean, not fully American? He's not one of those mad, patriotic nuts,is he?No.He'll love you, you make me happy.He's not always so bad.St....
Siempre he sentido que estoy matando el tiempo aquí hasta que mi vida real pueda empezar.
She rests her hand on the ruffled costume beside her. Just answer this one question. My brother never got over you. Did you ever get over him?I swallow. There are some people in life that you can’t ge...
Shame leads to secrets, and secrets lead to lies, and lies ruin everything.
See that guy over there? I nod toward a man in jean shorts and a Budweiser T-shirt. Am that obvious?St. Clair squints at him. Obviously what? Balding? Overweight? Tasteless?American.He sighs melodram...