As long as we won't commit to knowing everything, the presumption is we know nothing...he did not claim that God moves in mysterious ways. Instead he seemed to believe, as she did, though they never c...
And I have no idea how to be kind to myself. Living, as a general enterprise, seems unkind beyond belief.
Am I the only one getting shocked to smithereens here?
All hope and future lost in a day.
A delicate business, telling the truth. So long as Landis writes a happier falsehood for these men to tell themselves, they can believe in opportunity. They are the nearly rich,
A breeze shook rain out of new leaves onto their hair, but in their pursuit of eternity they never noticed the chill.
We sang in church ! Which means
Nothing momentous comes in this world unless it comes on the shoulders of kindness.
Everything else is in motion while God does not move at all. God sits still, perfectly at rest, the silver dollar at the bottom of the well, the question.
You make cheese yourself, she repeated reverently. You are a real housewife. It has taken me decades to get here, but I took that as a compliment.
You always write about individualism vs. community, and that you see independence as stupidity and instead celebrate dependency.
It. But when a man’s words are taken from him and poisoned, it’s the same as poisoning the man. He could not speak, for how his own tongue would be fouled. Words were his all. I felt I’d witnessed a m...
[from an entry by her daughter Camille] If nobody is spritzing chemicals on the predators, all a plant can do is toughen up by manufacturing its own disease/pest-fighting compounds. That's why organic...
[from an entry by her daughter Camille] American culture doesn't allow much room for slow reflection. I watch the working people who are supposed to be my role models getting pushed to go, go, go and...
Zeke embodied the contradiction of his generation: jaded about the fate of the world, idealistic about personal prospects.
You're thinking of revolution as a great all-or-nothing. I think of it as one more morning in a muggy cotton field, checking the undersides of leaves to see what's been there, figuring out what to do...
You're asking yourself, Can I give this child the best possible upbringing and keep her out of harm's way her whole life long? The answer is no, you can't. But nobody else can either. Not a state home...
You think you're no good, so you can't do good things. Jesus, Codi, how long are you going to keep limping around on that crutch? It's the other way around, it's what you *do* that makes you who you a...
You force people to stop asking questions, and before you know it they have auctioned off the question mark, or sold it for scrap. No boldness. No good ideas for fixing what's broken in the land. Beca...
Willa believed in the power of worry to keep another human from flying out of orbit.