Can’t release her? The air caught in my chest, hardened, and refused to move. There was a good chance I wasn’t making it out of this basement. The craziest thing I had ever done was...

Ma’am, I can take either you or your purse, but I can’t take both. And honestly, I’d rather take your purse.

Saji has had things done to people who crossed him or whom he has perceived as crossing him. Ugly things. These guys we’re meeting? They think they’re tough. They run book, own strip clubs, dabble...

I know who I am, and I know who you are, and nothing else matters. it’s how we live our life.

The best part about being kidnapped is being blindfolded and getting kicked into the trunk of a car. Boy, normally I have to beg my friends to treat me that well.

We have a hostage to pay ransom for in the morning so we can use him as ransom when we meet other kidnappers in the afternoon.

They should make blindfolds with circles cut out where the eyes are, so kidnappers would be able to tell when their victims‘ eyes are closed, so their secret locations aren’t revealed.

These guys we’re meeting? They’re dead. Saji has had things done to people who crossed him or whom he has perceived as crossing him. Ugly things. These guys we’re meeting? They think they’re tough. They...

I thought the movie was too short to pay for, and too long to be free. But I’d watch it again, if I were wearing a blindfold and stuffed in the trunk of a car....

Did he seem crazy?”Captain Geechy seemed perplexed. “No. He was quite calm and businesslike, actually. Why do you ask?””I ask because his plan to get rich involves hijacking a starship full of dead people,” she...

It never was about the musician or the instrument – it was about the laser notes in a hall of mirrors, the music itself. It was going to change the world for the better and...

This just didn’t happen to girls like me. This just didn’t happen to anyone.

I’m strapped for cash, and I’m also strapped to a chair in someone’s basement.

Damn. I never should have agreed to this. What is he thinking? Here we are in a piece of crap pickup truck on our way to sit outside of a supermarket to kidnap this girl....

Nous avons accepté la règle du jeu, le jeu nous forme à son image. Le Sahara, c’est en nous qu’il se montre. L’aborder ce n’est point visiter l’oasis, c’est faire notre religion d’une fontaine.

Consider bonsaiThere but for constricting bowlWould be a giant.

Look, we’re in the boonies. I am sure shoes are optional, as are a full set of teeth.

For two years, she and Cassie had been inseparable. And then one night, Cassie had disappeared from her bed. In her place, her abductor had left his calling card, a macabre nursery rhyme. Cassie had...

That day wasn’t the first time I had attempted suicide. Simply disappearing into the distant nothingness where there was no pain and no more feelings – back then I thought it an act of empowerment....

Insurgence and all forms of evil in a society doesn’t describes her as a failure, but vividly shows a lack of love for one another.

As an extreme method of saving, I’d kidnap myself, if I thought I’d actually pay the ransom money before I committed suicide.

Abby wouldn’t want you to suffer because of some jerk that kidnapped her. She would want you to go on your trip so that she would have fun torturing you for not being a puddle...

You don’t look injured to me. What am I supposed to think? Have you been with them this whole time? My god, Brook. Where were you?

I think the key indicator for wealth is not good grades, work ethic, or IQ. I believe it’s relationships. Ask yourself two questions: How many people do I know, and how much ransom money could...

And it’s hard to hate someone once you understand them.

It’s odd to suddenly discover you’re happy right in the middle of a moment. Usually, you don’t recognize happiness until it’s over and you’re looking back on it.

I have always loved camping, ever since I was eight, and was forcibly stuffed in a trunk and dropped off in the middle of the forest. My dad was a complex man, but I believe...

Marla poked Duncan. He stepped forward. “Maybe I can help.”Atomic Jack looked at him., his eyes glowed a sickening shade of radioactive orange. “I really don’t see how.” He slipped off his glove and his...