Unhappy people can be very dangerous, don't forget that.

The more you love,the more love you have to give.It's the only feeling we have which is infinite...

I closed the door and sank into my desk chair. My heart was pounding even harder. I felt like someone who had just staggered out of her car after an accident on a freeway. This was different from the cockroach and the books and the Barbie. I’d been injured. Someone had tried to physically harm me.

Well, be careful,” she said, her words deliberate. She quickly twisted her head, as if making certain no one was behind her. When she turned back around, her green eyes were hard and filled with hate. “Because wouldn’t it be terrible if you slipped and hurt yourself?

She had her sonar continually set for excuses to entertain, to bring together influential and powerful people in a mix that hummed, sizzled, throbbed, and sometimes burst into flames. But I was delighted to be her excuse tonight.

There was no mistaking her daughter's handwriting. And the words... "If you're reading this, I'm already dead.

I don't correct her to let her know her backdoor wisdom yanks me deep into another country, where water runs uphill.

I should know better than anyone--you can't tell who a person is just from his looks.

Other girls play with soft toys,” I said, “and you play with knives…

As Evelyn slid to a stop in the center of the hallway, Butler calmly shook his head. Then he lifted his machine gun and fired.

Now, a month later, I sit, foggy, a similar state of mind, in a different seafood restaurant with a locals-know-every-secret bar, two happy hour martinis downed, fidgeting with my napkin below the lip of the table, and I barely hear Wendy ask me another question. She brought a bag of them tonight.

Shy, I can’t be fixed. We won’t ride off into the sunset. There will be no happy ending.

Support Imagination. Read a book.

She would not have another man push her aside like some appetizer, there to wet his whistle only to be left once the main dish arrived.No more. She pushed her thumb into his throat a little harder.