I have orbited my entire life around you, and you know it, okay?

If we thought of the poor as what they really are, our suffering brothers and sisters, we should feel all our little hardheartednesses and carelessness about them a sin.

Ed opened the drapes and the sun revealed the grim scene, the filthy drool-stained pillow on the couch where he'd been sleeping, the TV blaring some horrible shitcom ever since he'd left the dial turned to any old thing, the dog food bag left open in the kitchen so Harry could help himself.

Dr John Reid, a historian called to testify for Mr Marshall, distinguished between the fur trade at the truckhouses and a smaller scale trade between natives and settlers: It seems that there were native persons who were selling small amounts […]