The young
The host country was mad for soap operas, and yet the President’s unwavering devotion to his television set was so potentially embarrassing his cabinet would have gladly traded it in for an indiscreet...
The entire time Albie followed Beverly around the house doing what the children referred to as the stripper soundtrack:When their mother stopped walking the soundtrack stopped. If she took a single st...
She was not one to set her teeth so far into something that she couldn’t let go when presented with the truth.
She understood in life that a person was only allowed one trip down to hell.
She sang as if she was saving the life of every person in the room.
People seem able to love their dogs with an unabashed acceptance that they rarely demonstrate with family or friends. The dogs do not disappoint them, or if they do, the owners manage to forget about...
One boy took a peppermint from a woman’s satin evening clutch but first held it up discreetly for consent. She moved her head down and back, just a quarter of an inch, and he smiled and slipped off th...
It’s a wonderful thing to find a great teacher, but we also have to find him or her at a time in life when we’re able to listen to and trust and implement the lessons we are given.
It was too much work to remember things you might not have again, and so one by one they opened up their hands and let them go.
It was my own special brand of insanity that made me think the trials of Lucy's life could somehow be eased by the order of Tupperware.
It was a time in my life when a Junior Mint could mean the difference between happiness and unhappiness.
In the absence of language, she believed that he agreed with her completely.
If you're trying to find out what's coming next, turn off everything you own that has an OFF switch and listen.
I may at times forget the details of my life but I remember the stories I read.
I believe that, more than anything else, this grief of constantly having to face down our own inadequacies is what keeps people from being writers. Forgiveness,
He said it in languages he knew he need not include, Serbo-Croation and Cantonese, just because there was comfort in speaking and no one tried to stop him. 'Stand up,' is not a message that needed tra...
He hadn’t looked at the list, but if she were standing at
He couldn’t help but like the look of children when they were sleeping. Is
Had I known anything about the elegance of quitting at the right time, I would have made so many people, starting with myself and Dennis, so much happier.