Coffee’s the most important thing they sell because most of us need it to keep us going, like gas in the car.
Your body - every body is a marvel. A wonder of creation. [...] The day you first opened your eyes, Anna, God asked just one thing: that you live.
When I was four I was watching ants walking up Stove and she ran and splatted them all so they wouldn’t eat our food. One minute they were alive and the next minute they were dirt. I cried so my eyes...
When I was as young as you are now I learned how to save my own life.
The sound of the pages turning was the sound of magic. The dry liquid feel of paper under fingertips was what magic felt like.
The girl remembered London as a place of infinite freedom. Now it seemed she'd rented out her whole life to the Joneses in advance. Service had reduced her to a child, put her under orders to get up a...
That night my new skin was red silk, shivering in the breeze.
Thank you. Lib tried to think of some more conversational note to end on. It’s always intrigued me, she said, letting her voice rise, why you Sisters of Mercy are called walking nuns. We walk out into...
Sometimes love is a pie. There just isn't enough to go around. Or OK, maybe there is enough love, but not enough time and attention, so you have to grab your piece, and then the pie smashes and you're...
So much of motherhood is acting.
She was with Jude so rarely that when she was, every cell of her body rang with grateful knowledge of it.
Really, a novel does not exist, does not happen, until readers pour their own lives into it. If
One never imagined that as the decades went by, one might drift into an unbounded country. It struck Lib now how alone in the world she was.
Lots of the world seems to be a repeat.
It was like wanting ice cream instead of meat loaf, and being told that children in refugee camps would be grateful for the meat loaf. Yes, of course she had nothing to complain about, compared to so...
It occurs to Blanche that English doesn't have French's useful distinction between , meaning that something's unconstrained, and , meaning that it costs nothing. thought, speech, love: the English...
Is there a word for adults when they aren't parents?Steppa laughs. Folks with other things to do?Like what things?Jobs, I guess. Friends. Trips. Hobbies.
If Earth was such unworthy soil for God's best specimens, why did he perversely plant them there?
I watch his hands, they’re lumpy but clever. Is there a word for adults when they aren’t parents? Steppa laughs. Folks with other things to do?
I think about Old Nick carrying me into the truck, I'm dizzy like I'm going to fall down.Scared is what you're feeling, says Ma, but brave is what you're doing.Huh?Scaredybrave.Scave.Word sandwiches a...