There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
I kept talking. "Listen -- this is some kind of misunderstanding.
There are plenty of good five-cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter. What this country needs is a good five-cent nickel.
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.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
It's wonderful what we can do if we're always doing.
She screamed as she went down, and I saw her thrashing to get up, but she couldn't, the crowd's pressure was too strong.