“I turn the water all the way hot, turn my back to the water, and I take it. I close my eyes and I'm on the hundredth floor with the jet-fuel fire at my back and the drop below. I… — Adam Berlin Copy Share Image
“She takes another sip of her drink. She looks around the bar. I look at the fine muscles in her neck, at the two… — Adam Berlin Copy Share
“We play phone tag, back and forth, the kind of tag where it's clear we're avoiding each other, where no one wants to be… — Adam Berlin Copy Share
“The digging continues ... Ground Zero it looks more and more like a construction site. Too much of the horror is gone. No fire.… — Adam Berlin Copy Share
“And I'd noticed her eyes, the lightest blue, and alive, moving here and there and then staring straight on. And now there's darkness under… — Adam Berlin Copy Share
“Anger, hate, blind temper, that crazy switch to destroy, all of it purified into discipline and control, the best side of boxing, Billy says.” — Adam Berlin Copy Share
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“Let's take a walk. You can show me some of your memories and I'll show you some of mine.” — Adam Berlin Copy Share
“He can hit a man in the liver so the blood flow stops. It takes a full second before the pain registers and the… — Adam Berlin Copy Share
“He wanted to break me, the me I'd made, the me I'd needed to make, my need, mine, my whole life since I could… — Adam Berlin Copy Share
“I try to remember everything, every thing, but sometimes I forget something. I don’t even know what it is sometimes, but I know it’s… — Adam Berlin Copy Share
“Her grief has not so much changed her as stripped her down, stripped her body and her face.” — Adam Berlin Copy Share
“I turn the water all the way hot, turn my back to the water, and I take it. I close my eyes and I'm… — Adam Berlin Copy Share
