Climp. After Sloan’s death, the two boys decided to move in with their dad. Joey was in the same graduating class she was. His brother,
As long as you have sufficient toilet paper, how far wrong can life go?
Amazing how quickly someone else's problems become yours. Trouble creates a vacuum into which the rest of us get sucked.
This is the downside of intuition: when it feels so exactly right, other people’s skepticism is infuriating.
Pretending to do something when you're doing nothing is an art form in itself.
Envied. I gathered they’d just returned from some kind of bridge-oriented cruise in which baby slams and gourmet foods were served up in equal measure. Much talk of no-trump, double finesses, and Shei...
Clients you’d swear up and down were total, unmitigated slobs, but they’re actually the opposite—so hell-bent on ‘clean and tidy,’ they can’t even start. Rather than fail, they give up. Their standard...
You can't believe everything you hear. Sometimes, you can't even believe your eyes.
Whatever the surface appearances, most human beings come equipped with convoluted emotional machinery. With intimacy, the wreckage starts to show, damage rendered in the course of passions colliding l...
The truth isn't always nice. It isn't always small enough to absorb at once. Sometimes the truth washes over you and threatens to take you right down with it.
Sometimes the noes are just as important as the yeses because they represent cul-de-sacs, allowing you to narrow your field of inquiry until you stumble into the heart of the maze.
Some death is as silent as the flight of a bird, some prey as unprotesting as a knot of rags. The
So far, I felt like I had a lapful of confetti and the notion of piecing it all together to make a picture seemed very remote indeed.
She held out her hand and we sat there together like grade-school kids on a field trip. Line up in twos and no talking. Life itself is a peculiar outing. Sometimes I still feel like I need a note from...
Results for I looked as respectable as the bum they were booking. I fancied I smelled better, but perhaps not. I've noticed that most of us don't have a clue what we smell like to other people. It's a...
Pam is petite, a bristly little chihuahua of a human being. She is the only woman I ever met who claims to be ten years older than she actually is so everyone will tell her how young she looks.
Pain was better than anxiety any day of the week and sweat was better than depression.
It looks like Wendell sailed the boat as far as Winterset and then headed out toward the islands. He left the sails up. There was no big sea running, but with the storms coming through, the normal nor...
I showered and shampooed. I even shaved the requisite legs and armpits just in case I fell in a swoon and one or the other was exposed to view. (Kinsey Millhone)
I left him where he was and went down the hall to the kitchenette, where I picked up the coffeepot and filled it with water. I poured the water into the reservoir and then opened a packet of coffee, t...