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...
People get careless when they're feeling safe.
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.
Life is simple. You're the one making things complex.
Law and order, punishment and fair play, are all on a continuum where there are far more gray stretches than there are black and white.
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 wondered if I'd ever be nice enough to volunteer for anything. I was hoping not.
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 pictured a section of the ladies' auxiliary cookbook for Sudden Death Quick Snacks... Using ingredients one could keep on the pantry shelf in the event of tragedy.
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...
I have friends who adore high heels, but I can't see the point. I figure if high heels were so wonderful, men would be wearing them.
I don’t know what love is about and I’m not sure I believe in it anyway.
I don’t know much about the Presbyterian faith, but the atmosphere alone was enough to put me off predestination.
I didn't take the death-and-dismemberment talk very seriously. Where could you rent a chainsaw at this time of night?
He’d set an eight-quart pan on the stove and the water had just reached a rolling boil. On the bottom of the pan there was a crumpled section of foil. I watched him add a quarter cup of baking soda, a...
Family’s tough. It’s like walking through a minefield, hoping you won’t get blown to bits,
Emotion doesn't travel in a straight line. Like water, our feelings trickle down through cracks and crevices, seeking out the little pockets of neediness and neglect, the hairline fractures in our cha...
Elmore Leonard,
By doing nothing, Sloan's so-called friends had sealed her fate as surely as Fritz had with his gun. In hindsight, did any of them recognize the price she had paid for their passivity? Their failure t...