A storm was coming up from the south, moving slowly. It looked something like a huge blue-gray shower curtain being drawn along by the hand of God.
Why, he very nearly almost looked handsome. If you could ignore the telltale signs that he is a certified creep.
But I'll tell you a secret. When I want to take God at his word exactly I take a peep out the window at His Creation. Because that, darling, He makes fresh for us every day, without a lot of dubious m...
Hope is a renewable option: If you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning.
The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope.
There's always a part of your nation's history that you haven't been told that... has a powerful impact on how you yourself may behave and may believe.
You can't really know the person standing before you, because always there is some missing piece
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Will you explain to me why people encourage delusional behaviour in children, and medicate it in adults?
What we lose in our great human exodus from the land is a rooted sense, as deep and intangible as religious faith, of why we need to hold on to the wild and beautiful places that once surrounded us.
We can´t know what we haven´t been taught
We are our injuries, as much as we are our successes.
Was this what they meant by hot flashes? But they didn’t feel hot. Her body felt full and heavy and slow and human and absent somehow, just a weight to be carried forward without its enthusiastic cycl...
Until that moment I'd always beloved i could still go home and pretend the Congo never happened
This is how moths speak to each other. They tell their love across the fields by scent. There is no mouth, the wrong words are impossible, either a mate is there or he is not, and if so the pair will...
There were two things about Mama. One is she always expected the best out of me. And the other is that then no matter what I did, whatever I came home with, she acted like it was the moon I had just h...
The important thing isn’t the house. It’s the ability to make it. You carry that in your brain and in your hands, wherever you go. ‘We’re like coyotes,’ he said. ‘Get to a good place, turn around thre...
The gods you do not pay are the ones that can curse you best.
The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) reports that current food production can sustain world food needs even for the 8 billion people who are projected to inhabit the planet in 2030. This wil...
Sometimes that happens. Children can be your heartache. But that doesn’t matter, you have to go on and have them, she said. It works out.