You think I should tell Jeremy?” “I think first and foremost you should put aside your Batman complex,” she said. “What the hell does that mean?” “It means you always try a little too hard to be heroic.” “And that’s bad?” “Sometimes it clouds your thinking,” she said. “The heroic thing is not always the right thing.” “Jeremy already has a family. He has a mother and a father – ” “He has,” Esperanza interrupted, “a lie.” They.
Family and money is never a good mix. Someone is always going to feel resentful.
Myron shook his head. All sports have their own lexicons, but speaking golfese was tantamount to mastering Swahili. It was like rich people’s rap. But.
By the time he got back to the table, Tad Crispin was sipping an iced tea too. Win made the introductions. Crispin was dressed in yellows, lots of yellows, kind of like the man with the yellow hat from the Curious George books. Everything was yellow. Even his golf shoes. Myron tried not to make a face. As.
Few things, I assure you, will devastate like the might-have-beens.
They say it takes a long time to comprehend a tragedy. You’re numb. You can’t adequately accept the grim reality. Again, that’s not true. Not for me anyway.
Grief can be inordinately selfish.
They all employed lots of skinny, bored teenagers who stocked shelves with the enthusiasm of a eunuch at an orgy. There.
He passed a hair salon called Snip Away, which sounded more like a vasectomy clinic than a beauty parlor.
Three days ago, I was a dedicated doctor sleepwalking through my own life. Since then, I had seen a ghost, gotten emails from the dead, had become a suspect in not one but two murders, was on the run from the law, had assaulted a police officer, and had enlisted the aid of a known dug dealer.
They think my male helplessness is cute. When a single mother does any of those things, she is neglectful and on the receiving end of the superior moms’ scorn.
Intuition was often a way of cutting corners, a nifty technique of replacing hard evidence and facts with something far more elusive and capricious. The worst investigators Carlson knew relied on so-called intuition.
Each writer had a bedroom in the main house and a shack or “work cottage” in which to write. We all met up for dinner at night. That was it. There was no Internet, no TV, no phones, yes lights, but no motorcar, not a single luxury.
Hoyt?” Hoyt turned back around. “So there’s no misunderstanding,” Carlson said. “I don’t believe a word you just said. We clear?” “Crystal,” Hoyt said.
Perception is often more important than reality.
You want people lined up, Will. You want the good guys on one side, the bad on the other. It doesn’t work that way, does it? It is never that simple. Love, for example, leads to hate. I think that was what started it all. Primitive love.
Suzze T just stopped by,” Myron said. Win nodded, jaw jutted. “I saw her on the way out.” “Did she look upset?” “Didn’t notice,” Win said, taking a seat. Then: “Her breasts were engorged.” Win. “She has a problem,” Myron said. Win leaned back, crossed his legs with his customary coiled ease. “Explain.
Dimonte spit into the can again, trying hard to cover up his obvious body language. “We’re still working on it.” “Uh, let’s pretend for a brief moment that I’m not a mentally dehydrated numb nut.
Kids don’t come with instruction manuals,” and you quickly learn that your child comes to you hardwired, that in the battle of nature vs nurture, nature kicks complete and total ass – still, when things go wrong, when something this dark invades your child’s soul, you can only wonder where the hell you went wrong.
The boys wore helmets that looked too big on their heads, like the Great Gazoo on The Flintstones, and it was nearly impossible to tell which kid was which.