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

You smiled then, and your whole face changed with it. It kind of lit up, like there were sunbeams coming from inside you.

Pleasure, I remind myself, is inseparable from its lawfully wedded mate, pain.

She told me to wait,that I was going to lose a finger.” Earl looked toward the kitchen and back at Ty and Duece. He snorted. “I asked her, did she think I was stupid? Then...

Before I could turn to look up, a voice boomed from the heavens: “What the heck is going on down there?

Marines either know how to use an iron or they get married […]. The iron is less dangerous.