The problem with a life spent reading is you know too much.
All cynics are disappointed idealists. The more stars in the eyes, the harder the fall.
I liked you the first time I saw you. You were sitting on the floor surrounded by books, and you looked up when I opened the door and smiled right at me. It felt like you had been waiting for me, like you were welcoming me home.
People loved you in the way they knew how – and often it was not the way you knew. Or needed.
Do you still do the clubs?”Jake shakes his head. “You do the clubsbecause you can’t find what you need at home. I’ve got everything I need. I’ve got the answer to needs I didn’t even know I had.
A pause followed my greeting. Then “We’re watching you ” whispered the voice on the other end.“Yeah? Did you see what I did with my keys? ”Silence. Then dial tone.These younger demons. So easily discouraged.
She didn‟t look like the athletic type to me.” “Maybe Nemov carried her. He looked like he could.” “He looked like he could carry his SUV. I don‟t know why he didn‟t.
It wasn’t merely fatigue. although it continued to worry me how tired i was all the time. I had a strange sense of missing something, of being in the wrong place – no matter where I was.
You’re Professor Mills? The new one who teaches history?”As opposed to the old Professor Mills who preached overthrow of the government?
It’s more believable that a cop would get involved in solving these murders. I mean, you’re talking about writing a series. How believable is it that this Hollywood gossip columnist is going to keep stumbling on all these murders?
Will stared at him with utter disbelief. “Am I really supposed to answer that? What do you think I want? I want you.” He added bitterly, “Who wouldn’t want you? Seeing you’re so sweet-tempered and understanding.
…do you have someone you can stay with? Hell, stay with your mother. The Pentagon doesn’t have the security system she’s g
I know that asshole you were with in college –”“Can we leave that asshole out of it?”Please, gentlemen, one asshole at a time.