15 Quotes by Carsten Stroud

Frankie and Delores had been very happy for many years. And then they met.

Smoles lived alone in this huge house for several reasons, the main one being that no one else wanted to live there with him. He had quite a time keeping staff and his dogs kept running away and he’d tried goldfish but they all ran away too—he could never figure out how, but he’d come home and find the bowls empty and the fish just plain gone.

Go get us some burgers and coffee. I'll get on the horn to Mark Hopewell. I'll ask him for a list.""Cheese or plain?""I'm on a diet.""Plain then. And no fries?""I said I'm on a diet, not a death march.

His name was Mr. Quan and he was the concierge, which explained the black suit and the lavender shirt but not the oversized bow tie in chrome-yellow silk. Perhaps nothing could.

See that?" said Lemon. "The car tracks turn off there.""How do you know it's not the parks people on a golf cart thingie?""You don't golf, do you, Kate?""No, I'm too young to die of boredom.

The weed-whacker dad was helping his kid whack weeds. Dad was blitzed to the eyeballs on beer, and the kid was waving the weed whacker around like he was Luke Skywalker. It wasn’t going to end well.

The weed-whacker dad was helping his kid whack weeds. Dad was blitzed to the eyebrows on beer, and the kid was waving the week whacker around like he was Luke Skywalker. It wasn't going to end well.

No one was in the car, but now that he was harboring a fugitive he had developed a level of situational awareness that bordered on painful.

He walked around the counter and out into the great room, a large stone-walled space centered around a gigantic flat-screen TV and an entertainment system capable of reaching out into the stars and catching talk shows live from outer space, if outer space had talk shows, which so far it did not.