“The director shook his head. “The world would be a better place if people stopped voting for folksy candidates they could have… — Marcus Sakey Better place Copy Share Image
“on; he might not be too late after all. The rain had picked up, and Cooper hurried up the walkway, still wishing… — Marcus Sakey Front door Copy Share Image
“What about the guy at the restaurant who tried to kill you? Is he a villain?” “Yes,” Cooper said. “He is. He’s… — Marcus Sakey Bad guy Copy Share Image
“He thought of getting out of bed but did not get out of bed. Why? What for? Everyone else seemed to know.… — Marcus Sakey Copy Share Image
“To learn the true value of something, all you had to do was lose it.” — Marcus Sakey Education Copy Share Image
“The secret to the game is that beginners—actually, intermediate players, too, and sometimes masters—they tend to look at just the one side.… — Marcus Sakey Copy Share Image
The world would be a better place if people stopped voting for folksy candidates they could have a beer with and started… — Marcus Sakey Beer Copy Share Image
“You wanted to believe that the sniper had a reason. That he wasn’t just a broken guy who’d been abused by his… — Marcus Sakey Copy Share Image
“But not a flag worshipper. He cared about the principles, not the symbol.” “That’s what patriotism means. The others are just fetishists.” — Marcus Sakey Patriotism Copy Share Image
“among them Senator Blake Crouch (D-Colo.), who last year became the first gifted member of the US Senate.” — Marcus Sakey Last year Copy Share Image
“It’s kind of a circle. When people are scared, it’s easy for them to decide anything different is evil. To forget that… — Marcus Sakey Copy Share Image
“And difference, as he learned that day, inspired a particular kind of savagery.” — Marcus Sakey Copy Share Image
“The rats that had once fouled their food became their food. But soon the rats were gone.” — Marcus Sakey Food Copy Share Image
“Now she sat on a bench alongside Valerie West, the two of them pretending to be on their lunch. Val was a… — Marcus Sakey Romantic relationship Copy Share Image
“I see the method in your madness, but there’s too much madness in your method.” — Marcus Sakey Copy Share Image
“In a minor way it was, he suspected, like Machu Picchu, or the Great Pyramid—a place you always forgot you’d never have… — Marcus Sakey Machu picchu Copy Share Image
“The lobby was at once attractive and bleak, a place meant to impress without creating the desire to linger.” — Marcus Sakey Copy Share Image
“A nightmare. What should have been a quiet little operation was now looping on CNN. Drew Peters had immediately played the national-security… — Marcus Sakey Washington dc Copy Share Image
“Maybe that’s what love is. Believing in the best version of your partner, so they have the courage to believe it themselves.” — Marcus Sakey Courage Copy Share Image
“But there was no pressing CTRL+Z on a day, no loading a previous copy.” — Marcus Sakey Copy Share Image
Personally, one of the most helpful things I learned was three-act structure. For my first four or so novels, I built the… — Marcus Sakey Books Copy Share Image
“Jack’s house was crayon art and blaring cartoons and the smell of casserole. Ethan” — Marcus Sakey Art Copy Share Image
