She never wore a watch, and for this she didn't need one.
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.
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.
Everyone should get dirt on his hands each day. Doctors, intellectuals. Politicians, most of all. How can we presume to uplift the life of the working man, if we don't respect his work?
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...
You can curse the dead or pray for them, but don't expect them to do a thing for you. They're far too interested in watching us, to see what in heaven's name we will do next.
Jazon and Mical. What kind of mother misspelled her kids’ names on purpose?
In Bobby Ogle's version of heaven everyone would wind up in one place, criminals and Muslims included.
They rock against each other, holding on, and the birds in the forest raise their voices to drown out the secret of creation.
Will you explain to me why people encourage delusional behavior in children, and medicate it in adults? That’s so random. It’s like this whole shady setup.
I never could figure out why men thought they could impress a woman by making the world out to be such a big dangerous deal. I mean, we've got to live in the exact same world every damn day of the wee...
It is in his absence I prosper.
Maybe life doesn't get any better than this, or any worse, and what we get is just what we're willing to find: small wonders, where they grow.
You can’t replace people you love with other people…But you can trust that you’re not going to run out of people to love.
The obstinate practicality of old women pierces and fortifies these families like the steel rods buried in walls of powdery concrete.
Now I need to be careful where I go next, because (for their own protection) there are laws in thirteen states that make it illegal to say anything bad about cows.
Silence has many advantages…I write and draw in my notebook and I read anything I please.
But being a stay-at-home mom was the loneliest kind of lonely, in which she was always and never by herself.
Why does a person spend money on a stamp to spout bile at a stranger?
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