I have a hundred reasons to dislike this gentleman,” Erica reminded herself aloud. “And a thousand reasons more not to go courting with any man.” Lavinia laughed at that. “Whenever has a woman’s heart listened to her head?
Mark felt eyes on him as tight as a sniper's aim.
His eyes touched lightly, and passed on.
He used a minimum of words and no inflection whatsoever. It was a policeman's manner of speaking, direct and unadorned.
For the Arab, the past does not merely live. The past defines the present.
Alex had cooked, and coaxed, and helped Mark form borders around the shapeless days. Alex had given meaning to the word "servant".
God answered prayers first by teaching the need to ask, second by using friends as holy messengers.
It was typical of the American to identify the one unfinished strand.
The distance had been evaporated by humor
Normal Iraqi etiquette was forgotten the moment drivers sat behind the wheel.
A steel door clapped open as a guard stepped from the bulletproof viewing station across the hall. "Adams!" "That you?" "I told you, I don't know-" The cop pointed straight at him. "Jeffrey Adams! Front and center!" The black man helped him rise to h...
The afternoon's glory was tainted by the voice on the other end. "I was so very sorry not to have the pleasure of meeting you, Mr. Haines. You're not living up to your part of the bargain.
I was thinking..." "We know," Pedro said, "It was like sitting next to a pressure cooker
Sometimes I need a place to ask myself impossible questions.
