He thought they would take her. Little scraps of khaki uniform lay in the driveway or fluttered in the freshly cut grass of the side lawn.
Her fingers touched his hair. It was the tide, his father had tried to explain, but he had always known it was the piling. Annie would have watched all twenty episodes in one night, even if they gave her eyestrain and a splitting headache. He wanted to get Misery back to Mrs Ramages cottage before he knocked off, and he looked back up at Annie with carefully disguised impatience.
Forgetting to make the quarterly property-tax payment is a hell of a lot more serious than forgetting to change the calendar page, and youre upset because this is the first time you forgot something that big. " — drowned in the corners.
He would never be able to maneuver this balky, oversized thing back to the bedroom in time. He tried to pull back in spite of the pain in his leg and knee and realized that his leg was moving but his foot wasnt.