People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own.
Plus, Tig said, it reminds me to be patient. Seeing all these people that have passed on. I get frustrated sometimes, waiting. For people to die? Yeah. To be honest. The guys in charge of everything r...
Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave. I never get over being thankful for that - for the courage of my readers.
TELL ALL THE TRUTH but tell it slant, says my friend Emily Dickinson.
If humanity survives long enough to understand what he really was, they can dig him up and put on display the grandiose depravity of the twentieth century.
There he’d found the pasteboard notebook: the most beautiful book ever, it could become anything.
She would just be catching up when I'd go again, swimming farther out into life because I still hadn't found a rock to stand on.
She never wore a watch, and for this she didn't need one.
Thatcher wondered what task could be more wearisome than shoring up a stupid man’s confidence in his own wisdom.
Our culture is not unacquainted with the idea of food as a spiritually loaded commodity. We're just particular about which spiritual arguments we'll accept as valid for declining certain foods. Genera...
This will be Great Mam's last spring. Her last June apples. Her last fresh roasting ears from the garden.
One red feather for celebration. No one yet has seen it but me. When Miss Dickinson says, Hope is the thing with feathers, I always think of something round—a ball from one of the games I will never p...
Oh, mercy. If it catches you in the wrong frame of mind, the King James Bible can make you want to drink poison in no uncertain terms.
Wardrobe of Denial. Blanchie glanced
The girl was compulsively honest. In earlier years, Willa’s every attempt to teach her the artful evasion known as tact would get shot down with Mom, that’s lying! And Tig remained the child who annou...
In my opinion, mountains don't move. They only look changed when you loook down on them from a great height.
We were not made for this killing thing, I swear. Back up. Big mistake.
Our house is like an empty cigarette packet, lying around reminding you what's not in it.
For about 48 weeks of the year an asparagus plant is unrecognizable to anyone except an asparagus grower. Plenty of summer visitors to our garden have stood in the middle of the bed and asked, 'What i...
Daddy and I got married kind of accidentally.
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