I ended up stepping on her stomach as the crowd pushed me past her, but by then I don't think she was feeling anything.
I don't own a cell phone or a pager. I just hang around everyone I know, all the time. If someone wants to get a hold of me, they just say 'Mitch,' and I say 'what?' and turn my head slightly.
What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?
Vanessa didn't like it, but I figured a cop wasn't going to stop for a kid waving his hat in the street, not that day. They just might stop if they saw Darryl bleeding there, though. I argued briefly with her and Darryl settled it by lurching to his feet and dragging himself down toward Market Street.
The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.
We rocked to a stop still on a downslope.
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.