Hearts in Atlantis

by Stephen King

making the plastic sunflower nod and bend comically.

Adrian Melon?

but he did buy him a sandwich called a gyro in a Greek delicatessen.

We almost always see where our best interest lies, I think, but sometimes what we see means very little compared to what we feel. Tough but true.

The trouble is, for the born smartass, the impulse has nine times out of ten been acted upon before the brain can even engage first gear.

losing the imitation as self-consciousness, that bane of all great artists, set in.

Sometimes things come back to you, that’s all. Sometimes they come back.

Willie’s eyes had been better by then but still not right; Willie had confided to Sully that he was afraid they never would be right.