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“He cupped her face and held her still, as he looked into her brown eyes; she was all flash and no bang. She talked big, but when it came down to it, she was a simple girl.”
“This was a great idea; he needed to go into tonight knowing that this was the last time he would ever be with Barry. He needed to savour it and enjoy it, to lock it tight in his memories, so that h...”
“Get your sticky fingers away from my cookies, Ben ordered, without turning his head, to see Jaxton trying to steal one from the cooking tray.You weren't saying that last night, Jaxton retaliated, c...”
“Jaxton smiled and caught his hand, holding it tight in both of his. Are you burnt out? Is it all too much? he asked, getting straight to the root of the matter, in one go.Yes, he sighed, hating tha...”
“Chocolate makes everything better, in the end, he announced, and Thayer fully agreed.Thayer gave him a smile of gratitude and watched Castel lift his spoon from the saucer. He dipped it, gracefully...”
“He was getting undressed and it snapped something inside of him that had been drawing taut, ready to break for months.I'm hungry, Bruno, he said, in a soft voice, as he removed the shirt from his b...”
“To tell others thatIt is a rumor Will not do. When your own heart asks How will you respond?”
“We do not know if she collapsed because of overwhelming joy, extreme surprise, grave disappointment, or heavy anxiety that for the next months and years she would live with a human male, because in...”
“In the hours waking,when we're still all still,and you can hear the floorboards creaking,and you can feel the shades blow in,the night we slept with,we'll never kiss like that again.Our lips, will ...”
“The world became informed about the extent of the catastrophe and the losses by the big powers eclipsed the numbers of Estonias who perished. When counting Hitler's victims there was no interest in...”
“I asked of the limitless sunshineHow to shine with the dawn's glowing light;No answer came back from the sunshine, But my soul heard a whisper, "Burn bright!”
“On the Writing Process:"When in doubt, take it out.,”
“On a far-flung parcel of government land situated somewhere in the vast reaches of parched American western desert sits an abandoned and long forgotten government facility known as Lost Cactus. Tha...”
“This will be the way Ill be remembering you, Kel, he whispered softly into her ear, in this beautiful place, where all that Im thinking about it how much I want you.”
“There was magic in the air tonight, and something incredible was about to happenKelly just sensed it.”
“There is that sense that we have to all come together, the challenges have become so great for the human species that it's going to take all of us to find our way out. One of the ways to achieve th...”
“If, as Max Weber contended, science, modernity and rationalism have disenchanted the world and swept it clean of gods, spirits and magic (or, at least, problematised believing in them), then psyche...”
“Whatever the story means in the story which I told you, the fact of thinking in terms of stories does not isolate human beings as something separate from the starfish and the sea anemones, the coco...”
“From the short story (and anthology containing it) DONNY DOESN'T LIVE HERE ANYMORE :Donny acted like he didnt hear me. You cant send your mom off into eternity looking like that, Artie. She wouldnt...”
“From "Lady In Waiting" in the anthology The Morgue :Now I have yet to meet the corpse could hold up its end of a conversation, so at most I might whistle while fixin one up stead of engagin myself ...”
