It is said the sesta is one of the only gifts the Europeans brought to South America, but I imagine the Brazilians could have figured out how to sleep in the afternoon without having to endure centuri...
In this life we love who we love. There were some stories in which facts were very nearly irrelevant.
If someone were to have pressed a sheet of glass down over the top of Alliance, Nebraska, in winter, it would have resembled an ant farm. Everything was a tunnel eaten neatly, carefully into the snow....
IT TAKES A certain amount of effort to be miserable and another kind of effort to be happy, and I was willing to do the work of happiness. I figured even if I couldn’t make Lucy deeply happy, I could...
I remember complaining one night on the phone to my mother that we spent too much of our time worrying about love and money. Think of it as research, she said. That’s what everybody writes about.
I received a gift--it was the first decent piece of instruction about marriage I had ever been given in my 25 years of live. Does your husband make you a better person?
I never learned how to take the beautiful thing in my imagination and put it on paper without feeling I killed it along the way. I did, however, learn how to weather the death, and I learned how to fo...
Hope is a horrible thing, you know. I don't know who decided to package hope as a virtue because it's not. It's a plague. Hope is like walking around with a fishhook in your mouth and somebody just ke...
His understanding that he would eventually lose every sweetness that had come to him only made him hold those very things closer to his chest.
He wondered now if everyone had a private life. He wondered if his wife had one. It was possible that all those years he had been alone, never knowing that a complete world existed and no one spoke of...
He wondered if this was what people were doing—were they making dinners with their family, holding babies, recounting days? Was this what life was like for them? Albie’s
He looked around the house and declared the entire situation straight-up Fitzgerald, so much so that sleeping over would have to be part of it. Astrid,
He doesn’t know to want for more because nothing in his life has been as much as this...on that night he thinks that no one has ever had so much and only later will he know he should have asked for mo...
He began the patter, the Ladies-and-gentlemen-I-want-to-welcome-you-to. Dot and Bertie Fetters sat forward in their seats, so thrilled to be entertained that for the moment they forgot that the purpos...
For a man to know what he has when he had it, that is what makes him a fortunate man.
Clearly, we are not all ruined, and if we are, at some point it becomes our own responsibility.
Certain things existed out of time. It was ten years ago, it was this morning. In that way the accident was like his mother's death. It did not recede so much as hover, waxing and waning at different...
Cal!' Beverly called out over the crowd... But Cal looked back at her as if it were some weird coincidence that his name was Cal and this complete stranger had said something to someone who was also n...
But part of what I love about both novels and dogs is that they are so beautifully oblivious to economic concerns. We serve them, and in return they thrive.
But it is never about who has given what. That is not the way of gifts. This is not a business we are conducting.