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Home was a secure haven for that - a familial cone of honesty, if you will.

Tragedy is a hell of a teacher. It's much too strict, but it's a hell of a teacher.

Maybe the answer isn't in another job," Wendy said. "Maybe the answer is in finding new ways to define manhood.

An hour before his world exploded like a ripe tomato under a stiletto heel, Myron bit into a fresh pastry that tasted suspiciously like urinal cake.

Again, so had the rest of the

He truly believed that no one could love him, and no matter who you are, that hurts. It made you insecure. It made you want to hide and build fences

Amazing what we can self-rationalize when we really want something

Would it be too hackneyed to wonder where it all went so wrong? Kitty's

Sure, okay, enjoy World Book Day but celebrating reading one day a year is like "getting some" only on Valentine's Day.

The truth may be better than lies ... But it doesn't always set you free.

She said that if you hold on to hate, you lose your grip on so much more.

If I didn't write, I'd be like a duvet cover; I have no other marketable skills.

Amazing what humans, even ones as wanton as Frank Ache, crave when left alone - other humans.

You don't worry about happiness and fulfilment when you're starving.

I've never chased the dollar, I've always chased the reader's heart. I love having more readers. The more people who read it, the more thrilled I am.

The Bad Man isn't lurking in playgrounds, kiddies. He lives in your house.

Hope she's not getting Gloria." "Why?" "She kinda looks like a white version of me," Jake said. "Only with a heavier beard.

What we so admire and call "single minded dedication" was really "obsessive self-involvement". What in that exactly is admirable?

Guys who always shined their shoes were usually self-involved asswipes who figure superficiality trumps substance.

More than once, I've wished my real life had a delete key.

The simplest answer is usually correct.

An old Croatian proverb Adam had learned in college applied here: The hunchback sees the hump of others - never his own.

Acceptance of the inevitable, a sign of a wise man.

Regrets and could-have-beens tried to sneak in, but he shoved them away. No time for this now.

A trial is two narratives competing for your attention.

I love to make even villains people you can relate to. When you find out who did it, I think you almost like the person, which is not easy to do.

Sports were supposed to be a reflection of life, a life lesson, a test of endurance and strength, a great preparation for the real world.

I'm a little bit of a control freak.

I still try to make the "next" book my "best" book. I want to grip and move you in unexpected ways.

In short, the satisfaction of creating, not necessarily the process, always lifts my heart.

Did tragedy cause fissures, open them wider
or did tragedy merely turn on the light so you could see the fissure that had always been there?

This was a place where tattoos outnumbered teeth.

I'm thinking of taking up golf, but the idea of spending time with golfers frightens me.

Losing my parents was the most crushing thing that ever happened to me. I lost my dad when I was 26, and it changed my life entirely.

I'd never had money growing up, and it's never been that important to me, except maybe to take our kids on a nice vacation or something like that.

You have heart disease, people understand. When the brain gets sick, well, it's almost impossible to comprehend.

Certain problems cannot be solved if you are constantly entertained and distracted.

This is the price you pay for having a great father. You get the wonder, the joy, the tender moments - and you get the tears at the end, too.

Sunlight when Maya exited

"better to have loved and lost" bullshit. Don't show me paradise and then burn it down.

War is never a meritocracy for the casualties.

The gray has no chance against that smile. It vanishes in a wonderful haze of bright color.

I pretty much only wear Lilly Pulitzer ties because my best friend owns the company.

I would rather raise certain topics and maybe let you ruminate on them. I'm not big on answering them.

Her smile shames the sun

When I looked into her eyes, I could see forever

But when in doubt, you might as well keep an open mind.

The cardinal rule: You never have to take back words you don't say.

When we stepped out of the car, I heard the ghosts. Lots of them here, too many, swirling and battling for my attention. My father's won out.

There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation.

I'm not very happy idle.

At one time, this might have been a nice area, but now the neighborhood looked like a man who'd lost his job and stopped bathing.

Secret revealed is a secret destroyed.

If I don't write, I hate myself. Simple as that. My life is out of balance.

Muse grabbed the envelope. "Everything in here?" Chamique frowned. "Oh, no, you did not just ask me that." Muse

In the movies, killers are omnipotent.

I said everyone looks happy. That was kinda my point. If you judge the world by Facebook, you wonder why so many people take Prozac.

Thomas had gotten his learner's permit a week ago - the parental equivalent of a stress test without using an actual EKG machine.

When Myron was ten years old, his father had taken him and his younger brother, Brad, to a game. Brad was five at the time. Dad had secured

Way to nail Cozone. Her cell phone buzzed as

On the outside, he's all cold and detached," she said. "But underneath that - way down deep inside - he's all cold and detached.

Whatever else a father is in this life - cop, fireman, Indian chief - he provides for his family. He

A voice flat enough to fit under a door crack.

He checked his watch. "One more drink," Win said. "And then I will go in the other room because - oh, you'll love this - Mee so horny." I

Hope can be the most wonderful thing in the world or it can crush your heart like an eggshell.

Mrs. Friedman lived in a happy snow globe of AP History.

Desperation can toy with you and if you give desperation any wiggle room, it will find alternative answers

By the time Myron was forced to return, their clients were scattering into the night like kitchen help during an immigration bust.

Those who had easy answers, be they on the right or the left, were always wrong. The world is complex. It is never one-size-fits-all.

Death teaches you that. You would give anything, forgive anything, for just one more second. . . .

When you hit thirty-five or forty, you know on one level that you are no longer the physical specimen you once were.

I once worked as a tour guide in the Costa del Sol of Spain.

There is silence, and then there is rural silence, silence you could feel and reach out and touch, silence with texture and distance.

Memories, you see, hurt. The good ones most of all.

Years fly by, but the heart stays in the same place.

You can't have an up without a down, a left without a right - and you can't have good times without expecting bad.

Kimberly Green had a major conniption. "Are you insane?" They

There are few times that I feel more at peace, more in tune, more Zen, if you will, than when I force myself to unplug.

The two Crabfest eaters pulled out bills one at a time. Then they each opened their change purse as though it were a rusted chastity belt. Heidi

They're politicians,' Win said. 'They'd lie and evade if you asked them what they had for breakfast.

His world was wobbly but back on the axis.

Oh, you've made plenty of short stories long. But never, ever, have you made a long story short.

We always seem to be on the eve of destruction. And we always seem to get through it.

Stopped her by raising his hand. I don't want to argue with you, Sara. I know you feel differently. Suffice to say that this is how I see it.

Watch out for people who belong in your past. Don't let 'em back in your life.

If you give desperation any wiggle room, it will toy with you.

But every home is its own island with its own secrets.

You can't have an up without a down, a right without a left, a back without a front - or a happy without a sad.

When you're young you don't get how great it is to be loved unconditionally.

Writing a novel in general is like trying to reach a mountain top you'll never quite reach - so you try again and maybe get a little closer.

So basically your plan is to flail about helplessly.

I found something in Mercer's room," Walker said in a voice as gray as a tombstone. "I think it belongs to Haley McWaid.

The Newark train station is about as romantic as a pile of hippo dung with head lice.

Matt rested his head against the bus window, the vibration working like a strange massage.

Why do humans never really learn the lessons we are supposed to? What is in our makeup, in fact, that draws us to that which should sicken us?

Writing isn't about the process. It is about creating. The joy comes not from the process but from the creation.

The humpback never sees the hump on his own back.

Frankly I'm fairly boring or fairly busy. Between writing and family, I have little time for anything else.

The first sip of beer on a hot day is like that first finger-dip when you open a new jar of peanut butter.

With choice comes guilt. No escaping it.