Life, Teresa knew by now, was a series of losses. It was other things too, better things, but the losses were as solid and dependable as the earth itself. Now there
I wanted to eat her pain, take it into me and make it my own.
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...
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.
They were lined with the pelts of cast-off teddy bears. There was no vanity in winter.
They didn't account for Lucy, only for her face. And maybe they couldn't. She was too huge for casual consideration. But how can you operate on the face without understanding what the face means to th...
There were some people who had the ability to tell other people what was worth wanting,
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.
Sometimes you don’t realize what’s lacking in life until you find it.
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 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...
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...
Nothing comforted Sabine like long division. That was how she had passed time waiting for Phan and then Parsifal to come back from their tests. She figured the square root of the date while other peop...
No one should go into debt to study creative writing. It
Never be so focused on what you're looking for that you overlook the thing you actually find.
Never be so focused on what you are looking for that you overlook the thing you actually find.
Love is a rebellious bird that no one can tame
Lots of firemen got their start setting fires. They learn to set them, then they learn to put them out. Tom
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.