Love is a state of the heart, but also, an activity. And quite an awesome one.
Carolyn CraneThen I level my smile at Simon, and this smile is one I do feel, and it’s definitely an activity, too — the activity of fist suppression.
Carolyn CraneStichwörter: simon justine-jones
Kenzo glances up from his chopping. “You look good enough to eat.”
“Don’t tell that to Stu’s sleepwalkers,” I say.
Up ahead stands the fun house, which you enter through a clown’s smiling mouth.
“I would kill myself if I was prisoner here,” Shelby says.
“No, you wouldn’t, just out of courtesy,” I say, “because your body would be trapped in there after you die, and your friends would have to watch your corpse rot.”
“Hmm,” Shelby says. “Smell it too.”
“Well, now we’re looking on the bright side,” Packard says.
Stichwörter: optimism
If I could go back to be shot in place of Avery, I would do so."
"I know," I whisper.
"Not merely that I would do so, I would exalt to do so." She purses her lips, stares into nothing. "In both a dark and a bright way, I would exalt to take that death as my own.
Sometimes you have to be a bad person to save yourself, and it takes a little chunk out of your soul, but you do it anyway.
Carolyn CranePackard wrestles off his jacket and shirt. He ignores me, leaning far over to the side, reaching down into the rocks. He comes back with a handful of slime, which he swipes across his chest, smearing it over the solid planes of his muscles.
“What the hell are you doing?”
“Interfering with his concentration. Vulnerability and a lack of logic will disturb him. And the bricks exert a pull…”
“Hold up!” he calls out. “I have to tell you something! Midcity is purchasing the Great Wall of China!” What? Has he gone insane?
“Midcity is importing the wall, brick by brick, right now!”
He strides, totally unprotected, toward where the Brick Slinger hides. “They’re bringing it here on a boat, in its raw brick form, to be deposited in the Maverick’s stadium!
Stichwörter: bricks packard great-wall mavericks midcity
Where's he getting the bricks? Packard asks.
"That's what I don't understand. He brought his own bricks?
You wish to be free, but there is no such thing as freedom. You can redecorate dungeon to give illusion of freedom, but you are still in dungeon.” “I should’ve had the choice.” “Choice is illusion, same as happiness and freedom.
Carolyn CraneStichwörter: mind-games
On a scale of one to ten, I'd say you rate a one. If the Porta-Potties are ten.
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