Then again, do you have to be told every single thing about the world before you know it?
The traffic was moving about the speed of a government
The substance of grief is not imaginary. It's as real as rope or the absence of air, and like both those things it can kill.
The standard approach has been to pump up the dosage of chemicals ... Twenty percent of these approved-for-use pesticides are listed by the EPA as carcinogenic in humans.
The past is all we know of the future.
The pale-skinned boy stood shivering in water up to his waist, thinking these were the most awful words in any language: You will be surprised. The moment when everything is about to change.
The loudest sound on earth, she thought, is a man with nothing to do.
The jacaranda in the courtyard has put on its bloom. This purple can't be ignored, it's like a tree singing. The walk down Londres Street to the market is a concert: the small jacaranda on the the cor...
The guys in charge of everything right now are so old. They really are, Mom. Older than you. They figured out the meaning of life in, I guess, the nineteen fifties and sixties. When it looked like the...
The devil here is a boy with too much imagination, he usually said.
The death of something living is the price of our own survival, and we pay it again and again. We have no choice. It is the one solemn promise every life on earth is born and bound to keep.
The back of my scalp and neck prickled. It’s an involuntary muscle contraction that causes that, setting the hair follicles on edge; if we had manes they would bristle exactly like a growling dog’s. W...
That was when we smelled the rain. It was so strong it seemed like more than just a smell. When we stretched out our hands we could practically feel it rising up from the ground. I don’t know how a pe...
Sometimes I still have American dreams. I mean literally. I see microwave ovens and exercise machines and grocery store shelves with 30 brands of shampoo, and I look at these things oddly, in my dream...
Some of us know how we came by our fortune, and some of us don't, but we wear it all the same. There's only one question worth asking now: How do we aim to live with it?
So she was what Hester called a 911 Christian: in the event of an emergency, call the Lord.
She looked over the bins of tinselly junk and felt despair, trying to find one single thing that wouldn't fall apart before you got it home. Maybe her father was lucky to die young with his pride of c...
She laid the side of her face against his frail old heart, where the pink shell of her ear could capture whatever song it had left.
She has changed in this way that motherhood changes you, so that you forget you ever had time for small things like despising the color pink.
Respecting the dignity of a spectacular food means enjoying it at its best.