She’d been only four, much too little to understand what was happening, when her mother walked out. She hardly remembered Michelle. Yet the loss was still with her, not really a pain, more like an emptiness, as if something that ought to be inside of her were missing. She worried that more losses would leave other empty spaces in her, until she would be as hollow as a shell from which the egg had been drained through a pinhole.
That’s a fox. His tail alone proves it.
She might lose everything, including her island and, for a time, her freedom.
What’s he a mix of – fox with fox?
Nevertheless, he didn’t take offense at being an object of suspicion, because such scrutiny was a wise protocol. Ganesh Patel rarely took offense at anything; to do so was a waste of emotional energy. Nor did he grow impatient about the delay, for impatience was a characteristic of those who didn’t understand that time flowed to a purpose that neither impatience nor haste could change for the better, though often for the worse.
Everyone who was murdered in Pinehaven County or died by accident received the personal attention of Carson Conroy, who had come here to escape the senseless violence of the city.
The stranger has gone to the back of the vehicle. “He’s trying the liftgate,” Libby says.
What’re you – Jane Hawk?
What’s wrong with writers?” he asked. “A lot of them hate the world and want to change it, build Utopia.” “I don’t.” “Good. Because utopias always turn out to be one version of hell or another.
Well, if my father comes down out of the stars, I hope he was Luke Skywalker rather than Jabba the Hutt.
If that were to happen, she couldn’t keep her Promise.
Because, I can feel it coming, something powerful, the way you feel the air taking on weight when a thunderstorm is coming.
Here was leisure measured in days, in weeks; here, in these expensive and lovingly crafted boats, was leisure measured in month-long sailing excursions up and down the coast, so much leisure that it made Lem break into a sweat, made him want to scream.
This is just another day in April, a Tuesday defined by isolation and hard-won serenity.
Quinn is a variant of Quentin, it also derives from the Latin quintus, which means “fifth.
Frequently, our mistakes turn out to suggest meaning beyond the fact that we have made an error.
She distrusts those who prefer power to money.
She returns to her house and locks the thick oak door.
But no lie, regardless of how well intended, could deceive in telepathic communication, because the truth of the sender’s motives was inextricably bound up in the emotions that were transmitted with the words.
From now on, stay close by my side,” Jeffy said. “Don’t even think about getting more than an arm’s reach away from me.