A mother can be only as happy as her unhappiest child.
A breeze shook rain out of new leaves onto their hair, but in their pursuit of eternity they never noticed the chill.
Nothing momentous comes in this world unless it comes on the shoulders of kindness.
I stir in bed and the memories rise out of me like a buzz of flies from a carcass. I crave to be rid of them...
Sweet orange Jaune Flammes, which are just the right size to slice in half, sprinkle with salt and thyme, and bake for several hours until they resemble cow flops (the recipe says shoes, if you prefer...
My books only for the dear person who lies awake reading in bed until page last, then lets the open book fall gently on her face, to touch her smile or drink her tears.
Less the same in her own home, which she’d had no chance to clean. If neither of these qualified in Hester’s mind as valid church-excused emergencies, Dellarobia
Benzene running through a school basement. It’s interesting that penny-pinching is an accepted defense for toxic food habits, when frugality so rarely rules other consumer domains. The majority of Ame...
[from an entry by her daughter Camille] Organic produce actually delivers more nutritional bang for the buck. These fruits and vegetables are tougher creatures than those labeled conventional, precise...
Zeke embodied the contradiction of his generation: jaded about the fate of the world, idealistic about personal prospects.
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 and I are not like other people. We perceive infinite nature as a fascination, not a threat to our sovereignty.... When the nuisance of old mythologies falls away from us, we may see with new eyes...
Words were not just words, describing things a person could see. Even if most did not. Maybe they had to know a thing first, to see it.
Why should it feel so risky to count concretely on a future?
Where you'd be wearing out the knees of your trousers, sir, they just have to go ahead and wear out their knees!
When you’re given a brilliant child, you polish her and let her shine.
When I was in my thirties I had these little square hips left over from being pregnant and I just hated it. I kept thinking, ‘All those years before, I had a perfect glamour-girl body, and I didn’t sp...
When I want to take God at his word exactly, I take a peep out the window at His Creation. Because that, darling, He makes fresh for us every day, without a lot of dubious middle managers.
When I got on the line again the operator was asking for more coins, so I dropped them in. Mama and I listened to the weird bonging song and didn't say anything to each other for a little bit. 'I just...
What there is in this world I think is a tendency for human errors to level themselves like water throughout there sphere of influence. That's pretty much the whole of what I can say looking back. The...