This isn’t ‘I do something for you, you do something for me’. This is hard-core friendship. Varsity level. This is me asking you to do something for me without getting anything in return. This is...

You and your scars. Please! You don’t kill youself like this!” I gesture, holding a wrist turned up to the ceiling, then pretending to cut across it with my other hand. “That’s just a cry...

There were dragons, in his dreams, as though some part of him knew the trials were not yet over, that there were battles yet to be fought. He slept fitfully, fidgeting, tossing and turning, groaning...

Not according to this,” Jazz said, taking the report. “No evidence of sexual activity or anything like it.””Well, there’s that,” Howie said, sounding relieved. Jazz wondered at that – was it really so much better...

It’s like this,” he’d explained once to Connie. “If someone gave you a single rose, you’d be happy, right?” “Okay,” he went on, “Now imagine someone gives you ten thousand roses.””That is a whole lotta...

Disappointment is part of parenthood, Jasper. The trick is learnin’ to love your kids even when they disappoint you.

The best way to support the troops is to not send them off to die in the first place. And the second best way to support them only to send them off to die when...

Look, my dad has a saying – we’ll burn that bridge when get to it. OK? You get it? Worry about tomorrow, tomorrow.

Psychologist: “This, ah, is a new sort of, ah, psychopathology that we’re only now beginning to, ah, understand. These, ah, super-serial killers have no, ah, ‘type’ but, ah, rather consider everyone to be their ‘type.'”Gramma:...

I do what I’ve trained my whole life to do. I watch the ball. I keep my eye on the ball. I never stop watching.I watch it as it sails past me and lands in...

Howie: “What if the whole thing was just an accident?”Jazz: “And what? Accidentally cut off three fingers postmortem? ‘Oops, oh no, my girlfriend just died! Clumsy me, in trying to perform CPR, I chopped off...

It’s a good day when a goddess gets on the school-bus with you.

See, forgiveness doesn’t happen all at once. It’s not an event — it’s a process. Forgiveness happens while you’re asleep, while you’re dreaming, while you’re inline at the coffee shop, while you’re showering, eating, farting,...

When you feel like things are out of control, you take control.Yeah, that’s what you do. Take control.So, yeah.Oh, yeah.

He easily gathered her in his arms; Gramma was made up of skin and bones and hate and crazy – and hate and crazy don’t weigh anything.

She screamed. Her screaming was beautiful. But, truth be told he missed the crying.

Anger was a waste of time and energy. Anger was useless.”Anger” was the label given to the emotion that accomplished nothing.

A river of images and thoughts and feelings, dirtied and polluted so that no one could drink from it without gagging.

The best revenge is living well, my dad told me once.

I suddenly realize that I’m naked, which shouldn’t bother me since it’s the phone, but for some reason it does. “How’s it hanging?” Kyra asks and now I think I’m blushing. It’s just an expression,...

I’m a complicated man, with complicated taste buds.