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.
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...
She was shocked by how bad he looked. Cancer really was the devil’s handshake.
She has a point, Cousins said. He never would have stood back here making sandwiches, though he felt he could use a sandwich, that he wanted one, and so he poured himself another drink.
She could read the patterns, knew at a glance a Melas from a Konya, a Ladik from a Sivas. She loved the Ladik.
People souldn't be allowed to decide that they wished to remain a hostage
Once you decide that strangers are more than just dangerous accidents waiting to happen, you will find yourself able to listen. How much sadness could be averted by taking the time to notice all the p...
Maybe once he wished I was his daughter, because it was plain that my news was hard for him to hear.
Marina brushed her hand across the back of her neck and dislodged something with a hard shell.She had learned in time to brush instead of slap as slapping only served to pump the entire contents of th...
Lucy was invisible, exuberant, and utterly birdlike in her wild, darting freedom.
Listen she said, everything ends, every single relationship you will ever have in your lifetime is going to end.... I'll die, you'll die, you'll get tired of each other. You don't always know how it's...
Just do me a favor first—go find the baby. Find out who has her. If I go out there now everybody’s going to want to start talking and it’ll be midnight before I find her. Take a quick walk around, wou...
I’ve never believed the women of the world are entitled to leave every one of their options open for a lifetime.
It’s strange, when you think about all the worry he caused us, that
It was an awful thing to never really have the chance to hold somebody until she was dead.
It had occurred to him in his life that he had the soul of a machine and was only capable of motion when someone else turned the key.
In my books, I make up the experiences and the characters, but the emotional life is real. It is my own.
If you want to write, practice writing. Practice it for hours a day, not to come up with a story you can publish, but because you long to learn how to write well, because there is something that you a...
If he saw himself as a famous novelist then he would have known she would be there, but if he saw himself as someone she had met in the bar, well, he was right. She