When I was Turtle’s age I had never had anyone or anything important taken from me. I still hadn’t. Maybe I hadn’t started out with a whole lot, but pretty nearly all of it was still with me.
There was room in Adah for nought but pure love and pure hate. Such a life is satisfying and deeply uncomplicated.
There is no point in treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad...Sadness is more or less like a head cold -- with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.
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...
The average food item on a U.S. grocery shelf has traveled farther than most families go on their annual vacations.
Soli, let me tell you. The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don't know.
Over the phone, her laughter sounded like a warm bath.
Or the quaking misgivings that infected every step forward, after a loss.
Oh, and the camel. Was it a camel that could pass through the eye of a needle more easily than a rich man? Or a coarse piece of yarn? The Hebrew words are the same, but which one did they mean? If it’...
No rational guidelines existed for comparing youthful freedom with the heart-enlarging earthquake of family life.
Like Daniel she enteres the lions' den, but lacking Daniel's pure and unblemished soul, Ada is spiced with the flavors of vice that make for a tasty meal. Pure and unblemished souls must taste very bl...
Last time I talked to her she didn't sound like herself. She's depressed. It's awful what happens when people run out of money. They start thinking they're no good.
Killing is a culturally loaded term, for most of us inextricably tied up with some version of a command that begins, Thou shalt not. Every faith has it. And for all but perhaps the Jainists of India,...
If it came to pass that Thatcher should shake hands with President Grant, as Polly predicted, he would still be a man who viewed life from the bottom of the ditch, not the top.
Iano ordered her back to Ivins to finish her degree in biology. Willa wondered when he would notice Tig was immune to his directives. Tig informed her parents she refused to take out bank loans, with...
...The question is, why do you think you can't be a writer?""To be a writer, you need readers.""I'm no painter, then. Who ever looks at my little dumb pieces of shit?
I didn’t wish to be comforted. You can’t replace people you love with other people, I said. They’re not like old shoes or something. No. But you can trust that you’re not going to run out of people to...
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...
He spoke for an hour on the nonviolent road to independence. The crowd loved it so much they rioted and killed twelve people.
Terms like that, 'Humane Society,' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent.
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