God, why does a mortal man have children? It is senseless to love anything this much.
For time and eternity there have been fathers like Nathan who simply can see no way to have a daughter but to own her like a plot of land. To work her, plow her under, rain down a dreadful poison upon...
But the last one: the baby who trails her scent like a flag of surrender through your life when there will be no more coming after - oh, that's love by a different name. She is the babe you hold in yo...
A taste for better stuff is cultivated only through experience.
A story is like a painting, Sóli. It doesn’t have to look like what you see out the window.
A quality diet is not an elitist option for the do-it-yourselfer. Globally speaking, people consume more soft drinks and packaged foods as they grow more affluent; home-cooked meals of fresh ingredien...
Literature duplicates the experience of living in a way that nothing else can, drawing you so fully into another life that you temporarily forget you have one of your own. That is why you read it, and...
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.
I can count all the ways in which being a mother has enriched my understanding of the world, of character, my sense of the future and my attachment to it. I can't imagine what kind of writer I'd be if...
She considered a language that could carry nothing but love and simple truth.
Of people: if the shark comes, they will all escape, and leave you to be eaten.
You knew me well enough to find me here,' she said.And his scent burst onto her brain like a rain of lights, and his voice reached across the distance without words: 'I've always known you that well.'...
When men fear the loss of what they know, they will follow any tyrant who promises to restore the old order.
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.
What there is in this world, I think, is a tendency for human errors to level themselves like water throughout their sphere of influence. That's pretty much the whole of what I can say, looking back....
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...
This is what it means to be very slow: every story you would like to tell has already ended before you can open your mouth.
There will never be another Frida.
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 average food item on a U.S. grocery shelf has traveled farther than most families go on their annual vacations.