And here is the shocking plot twist: as farmers produced those extra calories, the food industry figured out how to get them into the bodies of people who didn't really want to eat 700 more calories a...
Am I the only one getting shocked to smithereens here?
After a while Estevan said, What I really hate is not belonging in any place. To be unwanted everywhere.
A woman knows she can walk away from a pot to tend something else and the pot will go on boiling; if she couldn't, this world would end at once.
A million dead butterflies, she said. Sorry as hell they ever landed here.
A blank space on a form, the missing page, a void, a hole in your knowledge of someone--it's still some real . It exists. You don't get to fill it in with whatever you want.
A bird in the hand loses its mystery in no time flat.
The help of friends I rearranged my small apartment to accommodate a grown-up baby, and warily crept each morning from a
That mothers’ and daughters’ hearts can be crushed so repeatedly without learning to defend themselves.
South, moving slowly. It looked something like a huge blue-gray shower curtain being drawn along by the hand of God. You could just barely see through it, enough to make
It had been her mother who put Willa back together. When someone mattered like that, you didn’t lose her at death. You lost her as you kept living.
If you look hard enough you can always see reasons, but you’ll go crazy if you think it’s all punishment for your sins.
Being dead seemed a lot like not being born yet, and I hadn’t especially minded that.
Admired their own steadfast lives. Right up to the day when hope in all its versions went out of stock,
[from an excerpt by her daughter Camille] Living on the land that has grown my food gives me a sense of security I'm lucky to have. Feeling safe isn't so easy for people my age, who face odious threat...
You never knew which split second might be the zigzag bolt dividing all that went before from the everything that comes next.
You learn to read so you can identify the reality in which you live, so that you can become a protagonist history rather than a spectator Father Fernando Cardenal
You know what really gets me? I asked him. How people call you ‘illegals.’ That just pisses me off, I don’t know how you can stand it. A human being can be good or bad or right or wrong, maybe. But ho...
You feel like you’ll never run into another one that’s worth turning your head around for, but you will. You’ll see. No,
Whatever you want the most, it’s going to be the worst thing for you.