So one time when I was working in this motel one of the toilets leaked and I had to replace the flapper ball. Here’s what it said on the package; I kept it till I knew it by heart: ‘Please Note. Parts...
The gods you do not pay are the ones that can curse you best.
I knew Rome was burning, but I had just enough water to scrub the floors, so I did what I could.
Honk if you love Jesus, text while driving if you want to meet up.
There is not justice in this world. Father, forgive me wherever you are, but this world has brought one vile abomination after another down on the heads of the gentle, and I’ll not live to see the mee...
Whatever is lovely, whatever is gracious, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things. And peace will be with you.
Moths must fly to his flame and perish gladly.
Poor Congo, barefoot bride of men who took her jewels and promised the Kingdom.
Looking out on a clean plank of planet earth, we can get shaken right down to the bone by the bronze-eyed possibility of lives that are not our own.
She is too absorbed in the difficulties of being seventeen to want to hear the confusions of forty-four.
This was a living flow, like a pulse through veins, with the cells bursting and renewing themselves as they went. The sudden vision filled her with strong emotions that embarrassed her, for fear of br...
Nothing wondrous can come in this world unless it rests on the shoulders of kindness.
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.
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...
His mother had let him carry two valises: one for books, one for clothes. The clothes were a waste, outgrown instantly. He should have filled both with books.
The Middle East and North Africa are almost out of water. Asia’s underwater. Syria is dystopian, Somalia, Bangladesh, dystopian. Everybody’s getting weather that never happened before. Melting permafr...
We’ve learned that some of our favorite things like DDT and the propellants in aerosol cans were rapidly unraveling the structure and substance of our biosphere. We gave them up, and reversed the thre...
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The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. What I want is almost so simple I can't say it: elementary kindness. Enough to...
There was room in Adah for nought but pure love and pure hate. Such a life is satisfying and deeply uncomplicated.
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