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Firing stopped, and Bedouins herded camels across the artillery range.

Gresham’s law. Stupid talk chases smart talk out of circulation.

I hang there, upside down, watching Bronwyn, her face beatific.

Here is the fat guy whose Chihuahua gnawed through his stomach.

At nineteen you were six-foot-two. At ninety-one you will be two-foot-six.

There’s no way to escape a storm at sea; it hits you, and you can’t hit back.

“My brother’s last words to me were about you. Did you know that?”

You could take your pick from an array of rebellions to consider.

The longing to know hovered like a star above this child-woman.

“Why on earth are you taking luxury cruise passengers to Zamboanga?”

I sometimes have to laugh because even now, as a middle-aged man.

She had come to the scene where she needed to get them in bed.

For days after she left him, he roamed the house, unable to function.

Perhaps more than ever writers may have two kinds of fame.

“I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.”

I found it impossible not to imagine a radiant future for myself.

He could see I was American, but I thought he was unlikely to harm me.

Jayne Anne Phillips

When he died earlier this year an enormous hole was left in my life.

The hut was cluttered with the skulls and bones of small animals.

I broke up fights, bandaged cuts, fielded calls from parents, and sat with the sad or depressed.

The rifle slams into my shoulder. Smoke pummels the air.

I don’t need to consult a healer to feel the aura glowing around us.

“Out to lunch,” she learns from an older colleague, is a euphemism.

The sedan clipped their front bumper and pitched Bill’s car into a slide.

I was never nonchalant. I was more intense than Kirk Douglas.

Mom often went to work on her days off. The library was her refuge.

The stories of terror continued well after the tsunami had passed.

Owen falls. Like a dummy. Like he’s dead even before he dies.

Eating a raw oyster is like exchanging a soul kiss with the sea.