Nothing changes what alreaday happened. It will always have happened. You either let it break you down or you don't.
Nothing changes what already happened. It will always have happened. You either let it break you down or you don't.
When Luce did look in the mirror, she thought she might still be sort of pretty, if you went by what most people thought was pretty. And if that's the way you went, you had your own problems. It wasn'...
That's not a thing any of us are granted. To go back. Wipe away what later doesn't suit us and make it the way we wish it. You just go on
Subtract everything inessential from America and what's left? Geography and political philosophy, V says. The Declaration of Independence and Constitution. The Federalist Papers. --I'd say geography a...
It is a frightful thing to drop out of one's place in the world and never find it again. I try very hard to keep my memory green and thus by sympathy live anew, or if not anew, aright, which is more t...
What you have lost will not be returned to you; it always be lost. You’re left with only your scars to mark the void. All you can choose to do is go on, or not. But if you go on, it’s knowing you carr...
WILDE SAID, I hoped he could offer advice on ways Ireland might free itself. He has been the greatest revolutionary of the past century. —He was never a rebel. He was a businessman and a politician wh...
There was nothing about her story remarkable other than that it was her life.
Luce's new stranger children were small and beautiful and violent.
They did not talk much while they ate, other than for Ada to say that the Georgia boy did not seem like much of a one as far as men went. Ruby said she found him not particularly worse than the genera...
It is best not to study too much on who gets what they deserve. It can lead to an overly complicated interpretation of God’s personal attributes.
But God in his infinite wisdome had apparently thought it was an entertaining idea for us to always be wanting to get up in one another.
She always carried a book, though, in case she needed to read a few pages to avoid unwanted conversation.
But by fusing the best of both sides, a kind of intertwining consciousness arises—grandmother and granddaughter wisdom emerging from shared hope, relieved of emotions tainted by control and guilt and...
Sitting calm within herself and waiting is often the best choice.
The instant passed so fast, and when that happens, it goes for good and all you have is a slow lifetime to speculate on revisions.
I do know that however hard you try, you can’t see the inside tangle of somebody else’s love—or whatever uglier word applies—not deep enough to make sense of it.
By now he had stared at the window through a late summer so hot and wet that the air both day and night felt like breathing through a dishrag, so damp it caused fresh sheets to sour under him and tiny...
[No] matter what a waste one has made of one's life, it is ever possible to find some path to redemption, however partial.
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