The one thing in the world that can screw up a good education, derail career plans, and generally mess with your head: love.
Don’t mistake the edge of a rut for the horizon.
My poor brother. The media beast was hungry, and Matthew Angel was the appetizer, the main dish, and the dessert.
CHAPTER 36 “Our brightest blazes are often kindled by unexpected sparks.” – Isaiah.
Success comes in cans, not cannots.
Yes, that night I rode in the backseat of a police car for the first time. To anyone who saw me, it looked like I’d just been arrested, when in fact, I’d just been rescued.
Joy – that’s the word. So easy to say, so hard to find in life sometimes.
Waves kept pounding against the door. The water definitely wanted me to let it in.
Dreams suck. You think you’ve conquered something, you work on it over and over and tell yourself you’re getting better, you will yourself to get better, you congratulate yourself on getting better. And then you close your eyes at night, you drift off into another world, and suddenly your own brain is tapping you on the shoulder and saying, Guess what? You’re NOT better!
Anything perceived has a cause. All conclusions have premises. All effects have causes. All actions have motives.
I put flower buds in a lot of little bottles around the house so I can see the blossoms open everywhere.
It’s better to care too much than too little. Every single time.
Death is nature’s way of saying “howdy.” Statues.
I was going to use this as a way to beg you not to go to New York,” his wife said, “but that would be useless. In fact, selfish. Our country needs you to go. The world does. Putin is a wolf. It’s time he learns what a sheepdog is all about. Somebody has to do it, and it’s you.
Fortunately, we could all see pretty well in the dark. Especially Iggy.
Attempting to drive a car before you find and release the parking brake is like trying to drag a Saint Bernard into a bathtub. But.
That’s the problem with stun guns, even an expensive eighty-thousand-volt Tensor. They don’t always bring down a big man. Especially a crazed one with a sense of purpose.
Le secret pour rester en vie? Ne jamais cesser de respirer.
The haughtiness suddenly fell from Hamster’s face. He looked at us fearfully for a long second.
Hell is a city much like Los Angeles.