“In my experience, boys are predictable. As soon as they think of something, they do it. Girls are smarter—they plan ahead. They think about not getting caught.”
“Doobie always wanted to see the badge. It was shiny, and he was eight.”
“Her glare was so intense that you completely forgot she was wearing pink.”
“When you've come face-to-face with the dark side of the school yard, life doesn't hold many surprises.”
“Red was smiling back at me. “Ok. I'm not in trouble. But tell me your heart didn't start beating for the first time in a month.”
I couldn't deny it. So I didn't.”
“Excuse me, Tex," the nurse said, hands on hips. 'Would you mind reining in the voice. There are babies being born in this hospital. We wouldn't want the first sound they hear to be your painful howling. There could be lawsuits.”
“You still awake?' asked the anesthetist.
'Nope,' I replied.”
“The sand looked so beautiful then, so many little individual grains in the light of the night, giving the watcher the childhood feeling of infinite things finally understood, the humiliating feeling of the watcher's nothingness.”
“In my fantasies, I was always caught up in heroic struggles, and I saw myself saving lives, sacrificing myself for others. I had far loftier ambitions than mere romance.”
“My eyes wondered from one end of the mountains to the other. 'Do you think they go on forever?'
'The mountains?' Aritomo said, as though he had been asked that question before. 'They fade away. Like all things.”
“She wasn’t a Christian just on Sunday mornings; being a Christian was the core of who she was. And I adored that about her.”
“I stood Sentinel of Cadogan House, by God. He was mine, and he knew it, and I would claim what was mine.”
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