“You are called to do a certain work do it”

“Lets start with this statistic: You are delicious. Be brave, my sweet. I know you can get lonely. I know you can crave companionship and sex and love so badly that it physically hurts. But I truly ...”

“People having a victim complex are not apt to count on themselves in dealing with problems and they tend to wait for a savior”

“In her mind the U.S. was nothing more and nothing less than a pas overrun by gangsters, putas, and no-accounts. Its cities swarmed with machines and industry, as thick with sinvergencera as Santo D...”

“Nicky turned and bolted. Hed only had about a thirty foot head start and a few were closing ground on him quickly. He cursed his hundred-dollar shoes and his vanity. The shoes looked great, but wer...”

“In her mind the U.S. was nothing more and nothing less than a país overrun by gangsters, putas, and no-accounts. Its cities swarmed with machines and industry, as thick with sinvergüencería as Sant...”

“But some characters in books are really real--Jane Austen's are; and I know those five Bennets at the opening of Pride and Prejudice, simply waiting to raven the young men at Netherfield Park, are ...”

“You take people, you put them on a journey, you give them peril, you find out who they really are.”

“A novel must show how the world truly is, how characters genuinely think, how events actually occur. A novel should somehow reveal the true source of our actions.”