He wrote to his father every day. His platoon called his dad a girlfriend.

Mandy would much rather have imaginary friends who were real than real friends who were imaginary.

It was a soulless gaze, burning with a wild hatred that shouldn’t be there in anyone who could call themselves a parent.

The list of lifesavers left him numb, clueless – the action, indifferent.

I didn’t create them, humans created the Pollution. Cheryl Nobel, Alecto Steele, Albert Sanders, Olivia Campbell, all my pretty little Representations, there aren’t many of them left these days but they’re still very dangerous! They’re...

I want to get some sleep, so if there’s something mind-numbingly disturbing you want to show me, can we just get it over with?

He also knew the language of The Klingons, but the army had no use for it.

You’re real though, at least that’s something,” Alecto pointed out, holding his hand out in front of her. Smiling miserably, Mandy took his hand in her own and sat there beside him quietly.

you cross the field in the snow leaving tracks in perfect whiteness …disturbing my placid universe…marking the landscape within me …

Aurora, you’re a child, live like one, don’t act like one. Enjoy the innocence, dump the immaturity.

…I take photographs and I film my own home movies, I have a darkroom as well… but I can’t be a photojournalist like you… I can’t be anything… still, at least I can take photographs,...

Don’t overestimate your emotions because emotional injuries can disturb you but it can not defeat you.

We’re all hunters in my family, you know. Deer, ducks…damsels.

She had to save herself from every last one of them. All of them, the people at the orphanage, the foster care system, the middle school, they were all outsiders and strangers and a possible...

We shared a daughter? I’d not thought about it that way before. If we shared a daughter, and something happened to Claire, then I would not have to hare Esther with her anymore. I would...

Or ever will. But that is a suggestion, and one you are free to disregard at your own peril. But you are are going to answer my question.

Even in death, her mother was winning.

Disappear Here.The syringe fills with blood.You’re a beautiful boy and that’s all that matters.Wonder if he’s for sale.People are afraid to merge. To merge.

I don’t think I could ever see her closely,” the sentinel replied, “however close she came.” His own voice was hushed and regretful, echoing with lost chances. “She has a newness,” he said. “Everything is...

I find it kind of disturbing when people cheer when someone just gets stabbed brutally.

He continues to smile expectantly. I take a step back. I don’t want to catch whatever he has. He is a disturbing out-of-uniform Santa.

If you can get to be you, why can’t I get to be me?

His voice was oily and slick as it poured from his mouth like liquid acid, threatening to hook onto the woman’s hair like a fishing hook and drag her back to death.

In a way, ‘WALL-E’ had some of the same disturbing elements that ‘Up’ does.

How do you circumvent a mind bent upon lying to get away from the truth?

At least I rescued your poor hot dog.

This is almost always the case: A piece of art receives its f(r)ame when found offensive.

I ask you, what would you do if you could erase one bad memory and retain all that was beautiful in your life? Would you not move heaven and earth – and get loads of...

Then, for no reason I could tell you, I tossed the spool again, even though Elaine had asked me not to. Maybe only because, in a way, him chasing a spool was like old people...

After six long hours of driving and three rest stops, Tiger pulls up to a snow-topped, metal speaker box just outside the State Penitentiary’s first gate in Walla Walla. As he rolls down his window...

What I’ve always taken away from his words is the sense that we all have something that confines us, that seeks to define us, label us, belittling us in the process, shortchanging our potential. Can...

It’s not a good idea.

The most disturbing sound in the world comes from the alarm clock at 5:30am