Time to make herself scarce because, hell, she didn’t want to pass that thunderhead on her way out.

Shards flew everywhere, slicing her hands, her forearm, and cascading to the floor like snow glistening on a winter morning.

As the sky faded to night, her anger dissipated—but not in a healing way, just dulled, like forged iron sizzling in a cold pail of water.

Harsh, bitter laughs exploded from her like shrapnel, and she didn’t care who was cut in the process.

Aggression like this demanded slinging the first punch in a bar brawl, firing rounds at a range, or setting a car on fire.

She glanced outside at the sky, filled with clouds and smog. All the pollution, all that hell—even the stars didn’t stand a chance.

As she’d walked along this street, a million stars stretched across an indigo canvas, holding all the freedom she’d yearned for every night.

The Cottage Diner’s homey lights glowed onto black asphalt which just sucked up the beams to spit out more shadows.

Blonde hair drawn into a no-nonsense bun, her new manicure the deep red of fresh blood, she’d even donned a blouse and slacks for the occasion, something Neve had forgotten Veronica owned.

Yesterday I was clever, That is why I wanted to change the world.Today I am wise, That is why I am changing myself.

If the NBA were on channel 5 and a bunch of frogs making love were on channel 4, I'd watch the frogs, even if they were coming in fuzzy.

Name a moral statement or action, uttered or performed by a religious person that could not have been uttered or performed by an unbeliever.

Let me walk through the fields of paper touching with my wand dry stems and stunted butterflies.

Their quarrel was no more surprising than are most quarrels — inevitable at the time, incredible afterwards.

It may sound trite, but young people really are the future.

Creative success means balancing your love of starting things with a habit of finishing them.

For the first time, the best may err, art may persuade, and novelty spread out its charms. The first fault is the child of simplicity; but every other the offspring of guilt.

The most powerful State in the world, which up to now was relatively protected from terrorist violence, is no longer an inviolable sanctuary.

Never go to bed with someone whose problems are greater than yours.