14 AFTER OLD SUNNY was gone, I sat in the chair for a while and smoked a couple of cigarettes. It was getting daylight outside. Boy, I felt miserable. I felt so depressed, you can't imagine. What I did, I started talking, sort of out loud, to Allie.
13 I WALKED all the way back to the hotel. Forty-one gorgeous blocks. I didn't do it because I felt like walking or anything. It was more because I didn't feel like getting in and out of another taxicab. Sometimes you get tired of riding in taxicabs
12 THE CAB I HAD was a real old one that smelled like someone'd just tossed his cookies in it. I always get those vomity kind of cabs if I go anywhere late at night. What made it worse, it was so quiet and lonesome out, even though it was Saturday ni
11 ALL OF A SUDDEN, on my way out to the lobby, I got old Jane Gallagher on the brain again. I got her on, and I couldn't get her off. I sat down in this vomity-looking chair in the lobby and thought about her and Stradlater sitting in that goddam Ed
9 THE FIRST THING I did when I got off at Penn Station, I went into this phone booth. I felt like giving somebody a buzz. I left my bags right outside the booth so that I could watch them, but as soon as I was inside, I couldn't think of anybody to c
8 IT WAS TOO LATE to call up for a cab or anything, so I walked the whole way to the station. It wasn't too far, but it was cold as hell, and the snow made it hard for walking, and my Gladstones kept banging hell out of my legs. I sort of enjoyed the
7 A TINY BIT of light came through the shower curtains and all from our room, and I could see him lying in bed. I knew damn well he was wide awake. Ackley? I said. Y'awake? Yeah. It was pretty dark, and I stepped on somebody's shoe on the floor and d
In the empty staff room, Emma glared at the plate of steaming cheese and corn chips as if it was an enemy that must be defeated. Standing suddenly, she crossed to Ians locker and plunged her hand into the densely packed denim until she found some cig
On Stephanies advice Emma had written letters to publishers, to agents, then to bookshops, but nothing. There was a recession on and people were clinging to their jobs with grim determination. She thought about taking refuge in education, but the gov
Handsome, stupid word, and think might this be it? The elusive thing?Blackbirds sing outside and the Sunlight warms the curtains . . . Once more she shuddered, as if peeking beneath a bandage, and snapped the notebook shut. Good God, the elusive thin
Certainly seems that way, said Emma. What was it, she wondered, this need to brandish his shiny new metropolitan life at her? As soon as shed met him at the arrivals gate on his return from Thailand, lithe and brown and shaven-headed, she knew that t
So, Ian, can we get two, no, three of the ―Remember the Alamo‖ margaritas. Two or three? Em, are you joining us? Dexter, I told you. Im working. Okay, in that case, do you know what? Well leave it then. Just the bill, please, um . . . Ian left an
Democracy in action, it touched peoples lives in the most immediate way, shaped opinions, provoked and entertained and engaged far more effectively than all those books that no-one read or plays that no-one went to see. Emma could say what she liked
Thats nice for you both, Im sure. She poured wine into a plastic cup. So if shes not your girlfriend, what do I call her? I dont know. ―Lover‖? Doesnt that imply affection? How about ―conquest‖? he grinned. Can I say ―conquest‖ these days
Youve got to stop letting women slip drugs into your mouth, Dex, its unhygienic. And dangerous. One day itll be a cyanide capsule. Dexter laughed. So do you want to hear what happened next? She placed a finger on her chin. Do I? Nope, I dont think so
. . . basically we didnt leave the hotel room for, like, three days. Sorry, I stopped listening a while ago. I was just saying . . . What do you think she sees in you? Dexter shrugged, as if he didnt understand the question. She says Im complicated.
Sometimes he almost wanted to say this out loud, interrupt her and just tell her. But this was not one of those times and instead he thought how tired she looked, sad and pale, and when she looked at the floor her chin had started to pouch. Why didnt
As a matter of fact, I think there are more important things in life than ―relationships‖. What, like your career, you mean? She shot him a look. Sorry.They turned back to the sky, shading into night now and after a moment she said, Actually my c
Rattling on like a . . . mad old cow. Im sorry, Im tired, bad day, and Im sorry for being so . . . boring. Youre not that boring. I am, Dex. God, I swear, I bore myself. Well you dont bore me. He took her hand in his. You could never bore me. Youre o
The Sound of the Shell The boy with fair hair lowered himself down the last few feet of rock and began to pick his way towards the lagoon. Though he had taken off his school sweater and trailed it now from one hand, his grey shirt stuck to him and hi
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