In these silences something may rise

The last good time always comes, and when you see the darkness creeping toward you, you hold on to what was bright and good. You hold on for dear life.

Do you drink?" "Of course,I just said I was a writer.

Eddie discovered one of his childhood's great truths. Grownups are the real monsters, he thought.

Take the dead from the dead, the old proverb said; only a corpse may speak true prophecy.

That's the curse of the reading class. We can be seduced by a good story even at the most inopportune moments.

The woman had looked into the abyss and then walked out across it.