Books give us new lives, loves, and the feeling we aren’t alone.
A deus ex machina will never appear in real life so you best make other arrangements.
Well, everyone and their grandmother knows she’s stillbanging Charles after all these years —””Like a screen in a tornado. Sure.
Well, it doesn’t look good. Makes me look like one of those unloved latchkey children they make after-school specials about.””Don’t sell yourself short. You’re more Masterpiece Theatre.
How scary and sudden the shift from Living to Dead.
I’m not afraid of total failure. In the end, we’re all just food for worms, so what are we so worried about?
There was something about her playing… a knowledge of darkness in the most extreme form.
As much as some people would like to believe, for their own peace of mind, that the appearance of evil in this world had a clean cause, the truth was never that simple.
She was lost now, she’d been silenced- another dead branch on Cordova’s warped tree.
His characters are ravaged, beaten. They walk through infernos and emerge charred doves.
I just got another kitten, you know. Found another trademark. It’s quite embarrassing I misse
Betrayal isn’t ridiculous. It’s the reason empires fall.
…I couldn’t let go of the thought that it had, in fact, been he, restless and moody Heathcliff. Day after day, he floated through all the Wal-Marts in America, searching for me in a million lonely aisles.
We were up the whole night just talking, walking the city. You can walk those blocks forever, take a break on the edge of the fountain, eat pizza and snow cones, awed by the human carnival all around you.
Sadly, American teenagers are to a weightless vacuum as seat cushions are to polyurethane foam –
One of my pet peeves was when an adult imagined they had to encapsulate Life for you, hand you Life in a jar, in an eyedropper, in a penguin paperweight full of snow-A Collector’s Dream.
Always live your life with your biography in mind.
Always live your life with your biography in mind,” Dad was fond of saying.”Naturally, it won’t be published unless you have a Magnificent Reason,but at the very least you will be living grandly.