“With that, Radavic swiveled his head and looked straight at Rourke with what he thought was a steely, gray-eyed gaze, like in those TV legal-office drama shows, at an especially tense moment when one of the handsome actors rivets another handsome actor with an unshakable and hardened resolve and says, ‘Dammit, Trevor, this is our …
Staggering into the Truth
“This was not so much a penetrating flash of insight as it was — to use a term popular with clinical psychologists who have studied this kind of thing — a lucky guess. A blind squirrel finds a nut every once in a while” (Evangellyfish, p. 160).
Quietly Ignored
“A certain kind of life always goes back to high school, a fact often overlooked by otherwise insightful biographers. Grown-up life is just a continuation of high school, a fact overlooked by everyone else” (Evangellyfish, p. 159).
Which Rarely Happens in Nature
“His long fingers were splayed, hands together, fingertip to fingertip, as though a spider were sideways on a mirror, doing push-ups in an agitated manner” (Evangellyfish, p. 157).
Not Too Gooby
“Stacey was trying to figure out a way to communicate something along the lines of ‘my hero’ without sounding too gooby. She like Keith about as much as Keith liked Mindy, and knew she was a little behind Mindy in a race that Mindy wasn’t even in, and so she had to play it cool. …
Tattoos Say So Much
“This part of town had their crazy pastors too, but they mainly operated out of storefronts with names like Knee Deep in Glory Gospel Center. And some of their pastors had tattoos, but these were tattoos that said, ‘I was in the Navy once, before I met Jesus,’ instead of the uptown ecclesiastical version that …
Retail Detritus
“Three miles down that stretch of freeway, he downshifted and pulled off the highway on the next exit ramp he came to, turned right at the light, and headed off down a strip occupoed by mobile-home dealers, tattoo parlors, and numerous stores full of retail detritus” (Evangellyfish, p. 150).
In a Wholesome Kind of Way
“At this she bobbed her head perkily like a ponytailed girl in a biscuit commercial from 1957” (Evangellyfish, p. 148).
Kind of a Pushover
“If Bill had been a local potentate centuries before, and his city was under siege, and he had been told by the randy and imperious besieger to ‘Surrender all your gold, and let us ravish all your women,’ Bill would have appeared above the city gates to say something along the lines of ‘Okay!'” (Evangellyfish, …
Other Meetings Can Be Like That Too
“His moral authority was apparently stuck, like an oil-soaked T-shirt down in the sump pump, and this made it hard to control the flooding in this elder-meeting basement of his” (Evangellyfish, p. 145).