Afterlife
Rate it:
Open Preview
Kindle Notes & Highlights
Read between September 16 - October 16, 2017
6%
Flag icon
How could you spend decades trying to be decent and good, finding someone to love, building a life together, only to have it all taken in an instant?
12%
Flag icon
Claire understood how genuine was his need to aid, to protect, to be the guy who did the thing.
13%
Flag icon
narthex,
14%
Flag icon
The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed—smiled,
14%
Flag icon
Skirling
22%
Flag icon
But there was no pressing CTRL+Z on a day, no loading a previous copy.
25%
Flag icon
“Take death one day at a time.”
37%
Flag icon
The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.
54%
Flag icon
He’d died before she moved to Chicago, but she’d followed the story of his shooting with the same queasy horror as the killings of Freddie Gray and Eric Garner.
59%
Flag icon
Lieutenant Calley
59%
Flag icon
You wanted to believe that the sniper had a reason. That he wasn’t just a broken guy who’d been abused by his uncle or whatever. Wanting to believe that there’s a logic behind insanity.
64%
Flag icon
It was odd and disorienting, and yet fitting. Shouldn’t the world shift with each death? Shouldn’t we all feel each murder?
67%
Flag icon
Brody felt the aching vertiginous tug of departure unspooling his belly.
70%
Flag icon
It was like that old riddle about replacing the handle of an axe, and later the head—when you were done, was it a new axe or the old one?
74%
Flag icon
How much time have you spent considering the immortal soul of your steak?”
93%
Flag icon
apex predators