Reading fiction is important. It is a vital means of imagining a life other than our own, which in turn makes us more empathetic beings. Following complex story lines stretches our brains beyond the 1...
Whisper about, the one who finds out years later, just by accident, that she is not herself at all.
Towheads, the older one only slightly darker. He was looking at a picture of Anders with his arms around his wife and in that photo they were not much older than children themselves. There were pictur...
Shame should be reserved for the things we choose to do, not the circumstances that life puts on us
If I wanted to be a better writer, I was the only person who could push myself to do it. It was up to me to challenge myself, to be vigilant about finding the places in my own work where I was just ge...
Better to have done something, to have stood for something great and gotten shot for it than it was to never stand up for anything and die like everybody else.
As far as I’m concerned, writer’s block is a myth.
And while the Generals could care less about the requests of the other hostages they were quick to give in to her.
You do a good job of this, Milton said, keeping his eyes towards the river. I admire your patience.
When Lucy believed that there were actually things in the world that were worse than what had happened to her, she could pull herself up on this knowledge like a rope. When she lost sight of it, she s...
We both had our first kiss from the same boy in college (a sainted and tender soul who must have made it his business to kiss the girls who would have otherwise graduated unkissed).
Time could barely pull the second hand forward on the clock...
There will always be people there to tell a pretty girl what she should be doing or thinking. At the counter, it’s the pretty girls you can always sell the most to. They never know their minds. You
The quality of gifts depends on the sincerity of the giver.
The light was cut to lace by the trees that had grown so thick with leaves in the last few months.
Sometimes you don’t realize what’s lacking in life until you find it.
Some people are born to make great art and others are born to appreciate it. Don't you think? It is a kind of talent in itself, to be an audience, whether you are the spectator in the gallery or you a...
Sleep was a country for which he could not obtain a visa.
Since my grandmother died, I have dreamed about her every night. I go back to The Neighborhood and I find her again. Her death was just a misunderstanding. She is better now, walking and laughing, tel...
Shy Carmen, always hanging back from the others, who knew she could smile? But at the sight of that smile he would have promised her anything. He was just barely awake. Or maybe he was not awake at al...