Technically, you don’t need the keys. As long as they’re in the car, you can drive it.” He paused. “I probably shouldn’t have told you that.
I don’t know what a hard-ass feminist is. I’m a feminist, which only means that I think men and women deserve equal treatment. Hardly a groundbreaking concept. But I’m sure you’re about to give an example of where I failed in that.
If a bird flies straight at you, prepare for a bad day.
Take note, Anderson. Size and martial ability do not need to come with a correlating decrease in intelligence.
This was a doctor. Sworn to heal, not to judge. But judge she did, in the twist of her lips and the chill of her tone.
God, it’s like talking to a cyborg sometimes. You pretend to listen, but really, you’ve just gone on pause, waiting for me to stop so you can reiterate your original point.
I even pulled out the can of cat treats. Yes, I’d bought him treats. Give it another month and I’d be collecting his shed whiskers and claws like a proud momma preserving her baby’s first haircut and lost teeth.
Vechea mea viata mi se parea ca un vis- un vis in cea mai mare pate placut, lipsit de evenimente. Acum ma trezisem din ele si imi dadusem seama cine si ce eram, cu bune si cu rele. Nu exista nici o cale de a inchide ochii si a aluneca inapoi in acel fericit vis al normalului. Acesta era normalul meu acum.
Nothing says ‘I love you’ like ‘I tracked down this guy for you to kill.
Still, I shouldered part of the blame, maybe because it gave me some sense of control in an uncontrollable situation.
His eyes met mine, and I looked into them and I felt... I don’t know what I felt. A strange nameless something I couldn’t even identify as a good something or a bad something, could only feel in my gut, jumping and twitching, until I turned away and looked out over the forest.
Don’t be stupid. I have a gun.” He reached into his pocket and pulled out the .45. “Which will knock you on your ass if you try firing with a bad leg. Sit down before you fall.
Mom says crap like that comes from people who’ve accomplished so little in life that they feel the need to lift themselves above someone, anyone. So they pick skin color or religion or sexual orientation and say, “Well, I might not be much, but at least I’m not a... ” I’d look at those guys, and see the truth of her words.
Your one and possibly only chance to get the answer to every question in the universe, and you’ll ask, ‘Why are bats furry?
Sometimes, wanting to impress is what keeps us moving when all we really want to do is curl up in a fetal position and whimper.
The interior looked like I expected. Two rooms – a main one and a tiny bedroom. Dusty stuffed fish and moth-eaten elk heads on bare walls. A wood plank floor that seemed as if it hadn’t been swept in years. Cobwebs decorating the ceiling. Furniture that would have been rejected by Goodwill. Mouse droppings everywhere. A few dark furry bat forms hung from the upper eaves. In the city, the place would have been condemned as a public health hazard. Here, it was just a typical hunting shack.
Shadowy mystery stalkers? Hidden escape hatches? Creepy subterranean tunnels? My mother tried to get me to take social work for my master’s. I told her it was boring. I was so wrong.
When you accept a leadership role, you take on extra responsibility for your actions toward others. If you shun someone, the effect will trickle down through those who value your opinion.
We spent the first half hour being escorted around the room, introduced to what seemed like every politician and business leader in the state. I know I should have been impressed, but I couldn’t help thinking that I was in the same room with quite possibly every person responsible for the Florida election snafu, and the subsequent election of George W. Bush, and somehow I couldn’t muster a proper feeling of awe.
You have no idea, do you?” “No, but that sounded good when they said it on Star Trek.