“Boy,' said Ralph, squinched up, balled up, feet against chest, eyes tight. 'England is no place to be a sinner.”
― The Halloween Tree
― The Halloween Tree
“This first. To understand this. Then maybe."
Julian was impressed. The doctor had devised a pretty good tombstone.
This first. To understand this. Then maybe.”
― Leaving the Sea: Stories
Julian was impressed. The doctor had devised a pretty good tombstone.
This first. To understand this. Then maybe.”
― Leaving the Sea: Stories
“Loud people have thin, hollow bones. They can be broken in half and discarded into a pit. They snap as easily as children do, but they will not burn as long in a fire. If a loud person tries to store his voice in a jar, he will not be able to, unless the jar is a mouth worn on the face of someone in his family, which he must prize open with his fingers while shouting deep into the hole there.”
― Leaving the Sea: Stories
― Leaving the Sea: Stories
“Trick, yes, trick.' The boys were catching fire with the idea. It made all the good glue go out of their joints and put a little dust of sin in their blood. They felt it stir around until it pumped on up to light their eyes and stretch their lips to show their happy-dog teeth. 'Yeah, sure”
― The Halloween Tree
― The Halloween Tree
“The colleague, no doubt, was not a connoisseur of the self-punishment, sad to think. This type of hygiene was foreign to her, no doubt. How did one even fraternize with people who could not entertain vivid scenarios of self-mutilation? How was the sexual act even possible if one's partner could not entertain being crushed under a truck, even as a cathartic exercise?”
― Leaving the Sea: Stories
― Leaving the Sea: Stories
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