Fix looked at his watch, a Girard-Perregaux, a much nicer watch than a cop might be wearing. It
Coming back is the thing that enables you to see how all the dots in your life are connected, how one decision leads you another, how one twist of fate, good or bad, brings you to a door that later ta...
Being a childless woman of childbearing age, I am a walking target for people’s concerned analysis. No one looks at a single man with a Labrador retriever and says, Will you look at the way he throws...
As tight as it had been in the kitchen before they’d left, there were three times as many people crammed in there now, most of them men. Beverly’s mother was nowhere in sight and neither was the baby....
He had found her life meaningful when she could make no sense of it at all.
You wouldn’t believe all the nice people I’ve met at chemotherapy, she
Writing is a job, a talent, but it's also the place to go in your head. It is the imaginary friend you drink your tea with in the afternoon.
Whenever I saw her, I felt like I had been living in another country, doing moderately well in another language, and then she showed up speaking English and suddenly I could speak with all the complex...
Wearing shoes in the house was barbaric. There was almost as much indignity in wearing shoes in the house as there was in being kidnapped.
Time applied equaled work completed. I
They look into the mirror and all they can see is a collection of flaws,
The thing you can count on in life is that Tennessee will always be scorching hot in August.
The entire time Albie followed Beverly around the house doing what the children referred to as the stripper soundtrack: Boom chicka-boom, boom-boom chicka-boom. When their mother stopped walking the s...
The President's unwavering devotion to his television set was so potentially embarrassing his cabinet would gladly have traded it in for an indiscreet mistress.
Teresa kept sitting
Stories are based in conflict, and when the conflict is resolved the story ends. That’s because for the most part happiness is amorphous, wordless, and largely uninteresting.
She told the woman to go to one of the online agent sites that list agents who are looking for new clients, and then follow their submission guidelines to the letter. If they ask for a twenty-page wri...
She could read the patterns, knew at a glance a Melas from a Konya, a Ladik from a Sivas. She loved the Ladik.
People made her tired. The way they were easy with one another, the way they seemed so natural, only made her sad.
People die, terrible things happen. I know this now. You can't pick up and leave everything behind because there is too much sadness in the world and not enough places to go.