No one likes to see a government folder with his name on it.
Oh shit, the mummy's after us, let's all walk a little faster
Only children tell the whole truth, you know. That's what makes them children.
Party lights hang over the street, yellow and red and green. Sadie stumbles over someone’s chair, but I’m ready for this and I catch her easily by the arm.Sorry, clumsy, she says.You always were, Sadi...
Passing time adds false memories and modifies real ones.
Religion is the theological equivalent of a quick-buck insurance scam, where you pay in your premium year after year, and then, when you need the benefits you paid for so—pardon the pun—so religiously...
She had never dreamed there could be so much pain in a life when there was nothing physically wrong. She hurt all the time.
She nods. You're good for the ones you love. You want to be good for the ones you love, because you know that your time with them will end up being too short, no matter how long it is.
She put a hand on his hip and turned him to her. But things could go wrong, so i want to tell you something while it's just the two of us, Eddie. I want to tell you how much I love you. She spoke simp...
Sometimes a cigar is just a smoke and a story's just a story
Sometimes the things presented to us as choices aren't choices at all.
Sooner or later even the fastest runners have to stand and fight.
The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want for nothing. He makes me lie down in the green pastures. He greases up my head with oil. He gives me kung-fu in the face of my enemies. Amen
The goodbyes we speak and the goodbyes we hear are the good byes that tell us we're still alive.
The memories that went with the house—the sense of unfairness and failure, the patched hole in the kitchen wall—were too raw. Frank felt as though he had been tricked out of his entire life and the be...
The more you read, the less apt you are to make a fool of yourself with your pen or word processor.
The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there...and still on your feet.
The soil of a man's heart is stonier, Louis. A man grows what he can, and he tends it. 'Cause what you buy, is what you own. And what you own... always comes home to you.
There was a lot they didn’t tell you about death, she had discovered, and one of the biggies was how long it took the ones you loved most to die in your heart.
They walked back into the world together, wearing the gift that had been given them: just life. Pity was not love, Barbie reflected...but if you were a child, giving clothes to someone who was naked h...
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