“Studies suggest that the part of a boy’s brain that controls judgment does not fully develop until his mid-twenties. And that gap between mind and body – a body that could suddenly do what a man could do and a mind that still thought like a boy – could put his son’s future in jeopardy. Throughout the history of man, testosterone and stupidity had never joined together to produce a good result. Frank wondered if he could protect his son from himself. He”
― The Case Against William
― The Case Against William
“if everyone in the world refused to work for assholes, there’d be almost total unemployment, and”
― The Twenty-Three
― The Twenty-Three
“I can’t help thinking it’s a shame he’s such a sadistic bastard, because he has wonderful manners.”
― Behind Closed Doors
― Behind Closed Doors
“The art of reading is to know and understand the things which go unsaid. There is as much to be learned from the spaces between, the empty lines, as there is from the words on the page. I”
― While My Eyes Were Closed
― While My Eyes Were Closed
“I’d begun to feel as if there was a creeping deadness inside me, encroaching on the calm and replacing it with a black void, a vacuum where emotion should be. And the deadness was growing and penetrating every corner of my soul, reaching out its dark tentacles to smother all natural reactions.”
― Sleep Tight
― Sleep Tight
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