Art and culture

“Later that day the cops would crawl over the intricacies of his life and discover he was into pirates because he had been born with only one eye."

“Killing someone is easy. Hiding the body, now, that’s usually the hard part. That’s how you get caught."

“Santa Monica, 1923. The plane rattled, as if with fever. The engine spit once, and then, like a ruptured heart, my Curtiss OX-5 engine burst, spewing hot oil from both sides of its chest."

“Louise. August 1975. The bed is empty. Louise, the counselor— twenty-three, short-limbed, rasp-voiced, jolly—stands barefoot on the warm rough planks of the cabin."

“The events of September 11 were historic for many reasons. One of them was that the airspace over the United States was shut down, and every plane in the sky was ordered to land immediately at the nearest available airport.”

“1 August 2023 4:34 p.m. There were only five minutes left for Joy Moody and her twin daughters."

“I mostly remember the trial,” she said. “And the aftermath - being taken into a room and asked to draw what happened."

“After having a nationally televised panic attack on “Good Morning America,” Dan Harris knew he had to make some changes."

“Lizzie pressed hard on the bridge of her nose, willing the numbers in front of her to change.”

“Many young authors finding themselves so satisfactorily situated would have waded into the choppy seas of their ambitions without a moment’s delay...."