It was a rule of marriage: the more desperately you needed alone time with your spouse, the quicker you’d spoil it with a blowout. When
It occurs to her that there is one thing about people you can never understand well enough: how entirely inside themselves they are.
Isn't it crazy? Rich people in the United States don't even know how to use money properly.
In the scullery kitchens and probably the salt mines of this world, many a child is not so much raised as hammered into shape, Artie. To be of use. Surviving by the grace of utility alone.
In a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is make things as right as we can.
In Bobby Ogle's version of heaven everyone would wind up in one place, criminals and Muslims included.
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...
Humans are in love with the idea of our persisting,' he said. 'We fetishize it, really. Our retirement funds, our genealogies. Our so-called ideas for the ages.
Honk if you love Jesus, text while driving if you want to meet up.
High fashion has the shelf life of potato salad. And when past its prime, it is similarly deadly.
Except for her weak foundation. The ruin of many a girl, I guess.
Beene-beene. The truest truth.
A first child is your own best foot forward, and how you do cheer those little feet as they strike out. You examine every turn of flesh for precocity, and crow it to the world. But the last one: the b...
Animals behaved with purpose, it seemed. Unlike people.
I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves.
She believed material desires were toxic.
Realized that I had come to my own terms with the desert, but my soul was thirsty.
Nothing wondrous can come in this world unless it rests on the shoulders of kindness.
Will you explain to me why people encourage delusional behavior in children, and medicate it in adults? That
When people run for their lives they frequently neglect to bring along their file cabinets of evidence, she said. Mattie wasn’t often bitter but when she was, she was. I didn’t want to believe the wor...