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When you have enough power and money, you can dictate the meanings of words.
They talked on the phone, and then they told you about talking on the phone.
That was the genius of the demand—no time to think, no time to plan.
AFTER A FEW MOMENTS OF NOT CRYING (BUT A LOT OF BLINKING)
“Interesting” was one of those uncertain words.
“You’ll be great,” Stevie said, putting as positive a look on her face as she could. “Yeah, don’t do that,” Nate said. “Fine. It’ll be horrible.” “Thanks,” he said.
Stevie had no fears of the dead. The living, however, sometimes gave her the creeps.
“Anything is better than doing what I’m supposed to be doing.”
This kind of pleasantness almost made it worse. How could she be anxious when everything was so cheerful?
Brain chemistry doesn’t care about how pretty things are.
Games are not fun when you don’t know you’re playing.
Nate was a rain cloud, but he was her friendly rain cloud, and the world needs some rain.
When people say they honestly don’t care, they care.
“Because witnesses are unreliable,” she replied. “You think people will lie?” “No,” she said. “It’s not that. It’s that people don’t know what they remember. It’s not that people lie so much as people are just wrong about what they think they see. Humans are bad at estimating time, distance, and duration of events, especially when scared or stressed.
the thoughts may come, but you don’t have to chase them all.
Her palms were starting to sweat. And her forehead. And her feet? What the hell was that? Why was the human body such a jerk?
If you can’t get in through the door, throw a rock through the window.
