Being dead seemed a lot like not being born yet, and I hadn’t especially minded that.
Bare wood of her son beneath the bark
Always tried to be positive with her, although I’d learned
[on her Amish friends]I do know this family has borne losses and grief, just like the rest of us. But if they are generally content, must such a life inevitably be dismissed as mythical, or else merel...
[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...
Your dreams, what you hope for and all that, it's not separate from your life. It grows right up out of it.
Your blood for mine. If not these, then those. War is the supreme mathematics problem. It strains our skulls, yet we work out the sums, believing we have pressed the most monstrous quantities into a b...
You learn to read so you can identify the reality in which you live, so that you can become a protagonist of history rather than a spectator.
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 feel like you’ll never run into another one that’s worth turning your head around for, but you will. You’ll see. No,
You can’t let your heart go bad like that, like sour milk. There’s always the chance you’ll want to use it later.
You can't know somebody, I thought, till you've followed him home.
You can't just sashay into the jungle aiming to change it all over to the Christian style, without expecting the jungle to change you right back.
You can resign from the Woman's Club, but the world is all, you can't just stop attending.
Why is it that only girls stand on the sides of their feet? As if they're afraid to plant themselves?
Why do you suppose the poets talk about hearts?' he asked me suddenly. 'When they discuss emotional damage? The tissue of hearts is tough as a shoe. Did you ever sew up a heart?
When we traded homemaking for careers, we were implicitly promised economic independence and worldly influence. But a devil of a bargain it has turned out to be in terms of daily life. We gave up the...
Whatever you want the most, it’s going to be the worst thing for you.
What other man, ever again, would just do as she commanded, no questions asked? She felt overwhelmed with love and loss and nostalgia for this bond that was not even yet in her past,
What keeps you going isn't just some fine destination but the road you're on and the fact you know how to drive.