Liel didn’t calm down enough to be able to have an actual conversation until we were nearly to the Astor Place station. “So let me see if I’ve got all this,” she said, stopping beneath the iron cube sculpture at the intersection of Lafayette and Eighth. The cube was about fifteen feet tall, stand...
As I tried to cram myself into the narrow seats, I decided it was my least favorite mode of transportation. “Why couldn’t we take a train to Philly?” I asked. “It would have been about triple the cost,” said Mozart. He and Sophie sat in the row in f...
“Dad, I . . .” “Do you see now?” he asks. “Do you want to bring something like that down on this sleepy little neighborhood? If there is any risk that this Rob could reveal us, it wil be more than just embarrassing. It wil be deadly.” “But Dad, we can’t just keep moving. I can’t do it. I’l go cra...
“Do you wish he came with us?” asked Brigga Lin. “No.” Hope didn’t want to think about Red right now. “He looked like he would have been helpful.” “Yes.” “You care for him that much?” ...
For most of the day, we did our best to avoid each other. But at lunch, I refused to leave the table and I guess so did she. The two of us ate in silence, purposely not looking at each other, as Rick and Alexander grilled TJ mercilessly on what it was like to date Laurie. “So, does she have, like...