His cock swung from side to side like the pendulum of a grandfather clock on speed.
Good advice was sometimes easier to give than receive.
Bit if you look too long at the small rights, Jake – the ones that lie close at hand – it’s easy to lose sight of the big ones that stand farther off. Things are out of joint – going wrong and getting worse. We see it all around us, but the answers are still ahead.
A creative person may write, paint, sculpt, or think up math formulae; he or she might dance or sing or play a musical instrument. Those are the fingers, but creativity is the hand that gives them life. And just as all hands are basically the same – form follows function – all creative people are the same once you get down to the place where the fingers join.
The heart also knows things, and so does the imagination. Thank God. If not for heart and imagination, the world of fiction would be a pretty seedy place. It might not even exist at all.
Wow, ” Ben said. He thought Eddie’s mother must be really weird. He was unconscious of the fact that now both of his hands were fiddling in the remains of his sweatshirt. “Why don’t you just say no? Say something like ‘Hey Ma, I feel all right, I just want to stay home and watch Sea Hunt.
I’m no a-hole,’ George said, sitting on the edge of Bill’s bed and putting the things he had gathered on the nighttable. ‘Yes you are,’ Bill said. ‘Nothing but a great big brown a-hole, that’s you.’ George tried to imagine a kid who was nothing but a great big a-hole on legs and began to giggle. ‘Your a-hole is bigger than Augusta,’ Bill said, beginning to giggle, too. ‘Your a-hole is bigger than the whole state,’ George replied. This broke both boys up for nearly two minutes.
Christ, Richie thinks, opening a fresh beer for himself. it isn’t bad enough It can be any damn monster It wants to be, and.
I dreamed of them going to houses and calling on phones and begging to be let in. Some people knew, way down deep they knew, but they let them in just the same. Because it was easier to do that than to think something so bad might be real.
Clouds always roll in, and sooner or later they always roll out.
Then I thought of the federal government discovering they could send special ops into the past to change whatever they wanted. I didn’t know if that were possible, but if so, the folks who gave us fun stuff like bio-weapons and computer-guided smart bombs were the last folks I’d want carrying their various agendas into living, unarmored history. The.
He’s a hothead and I’m a coward. Perhaps that’s why we’re friends – we fit around each other’s wrong places, make something that’s almost whole.
Is maybe the best we can do?” Callahan asked. “Yeah,” Eddie said. “For the time being, I guess it is.
I’m not sure men know how to talk about women in any meaningful way.
Du bist doch’n netter kleiner Gentleman, oder nich? Und wenn sie dem beigebracht habn, dass man’ne Zahnpasta nich frisst und auch nich einfach in die Ecken pisst, da lernen die’nen Gentleman doch als Erstes lesen, oder nich?
He remembered a pilot telling him once, ‘They pay us a hundred thousand dollars or more a year, Brian, and they really do it for just one reason. They know that in almost every pilot’s career, there are thirty or forty seconds when he might actually make a difference. They pay us not to freeze when those seconds finally come.
Eddie who breaks the silence. “How much do you think It knows about what we’re doing now? ” he asks. “It was here, wasn’t It? ” Ben says.
The train was parked fifty feet up, by a toy station that mimicked the one across the street. Hanging from its eaves was a sign which read TOPEKA. The train was Charlie the Choo-Choo, cowcatcher and all; a 402 Big Boy Steam Locomotive.
Better to stick with the original plan.
Even if it’s a witty, singing and dancing turd, it’s still a turd.