My mother, I suppose, is still a main figure in my life because her life was so sad and unfair, and she so brave, but also because she was determined to make me into the Sunday-school-recitation littl...
And there was still a lot of soft snow in the bush. We
My need for love had gone underground, like a canny toothache.
It was comparable to getting sick from bad ventilation
In your life there are a few places, or maybe only the one place, where something happened, and then there are all the other places.
She could not picture it. Herself riding on the subway or streetcar, caring for new horses, talking to new people, living among hordes of people every day who were not Clark.A life, a place, chosen fo...
Hatred is always a sin, my mother told me. Remember that. One drop of hatred in your soul will spread and discolor everything like a drop of black ink in white milk. I was struck by that and meant to...
گريس نمي توانست توضيح بدهد يا درست بفهمد كه آنچه احساس مي كرد دو هم رفته حسادت نبود، خشم بود٠ دليلش هم اين نبود كه نمي توانست آن طوري خريد كند يا لباس بپوشد٠ اين بود كه از دخترها توقع داشتند اين جوري...
This is not a story, only life.
You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations.
Hector him like this from now on, when I could get him alone.
She read modern fiction too. Always fiction. She hated to hear the word 'escape' used about fiction. She might have argued, not just playfully, that it was real life that was the escape. But this was...
Love is not for the undepilated.
It’s just life. You can’t beat life.
Demasiada felicidad
They lived in a curious but not unhappy isolation, though her father was a popular schoolteacher. Partly they were cut off by Sara’s heart trouble, but also by their subscribing to magazines nobody ar...
People have thoughts they'd sooner not have. It happens in life.
She did not have time to wonder about his being late. He died bent over the sidewalk sign that stood out in front of the hardware store... He had not even had time to get into the store...
People who believe in miracles do not make much fuss when they actually encounter one
We say of some things that they can't be forgiven, or that we will never forgive ourselves. But we do -- we do it all the time.