Southern women don’t show their pain to anybody. They aren’t raised that way. But they feel it.
Quentin finishes with the limb and sits up. Who wears the pants in your family, man? That depends on the issue.
Men fantasize about wanton women, but when they meet one, they’re paralyzed by fear.
I will do those things which make me happy today and which I can also live with ten years from now.
I educated myself, discovered my gift for language, learned that the larger world lay not across oceans but within the human mind and heart.
For once the stone hits the surface of the pond, the ripples never really stop. The waves diminish, and all seems to return to its previous state, but that’s an illusion. Disturbed fish change their p...
Emotions are by nature amorphous. When confined to words, our longings and passions, our rebellions and humiliations often seem melodramatic, trivial, or even pathetic.
Donna Tartt’s The Secret History. Annie
But as my mother always said: You never know what’s cooking in someone else’s pot.
A glacier consumes whole forests by inches.
Yet he [Levon] somehow sings with the wounded humanity of a man without a tribe, a man who has known both love and grief and understands that one is the price of the other.
Path of least resistance, or the walk over hot coals.
Named False Witness the fourth-best legal thriller ever written. After what? Anatomy of a Murder , The Caine Mutiny , and Presumed Innocent.
Chopper’s
When everything is at risk, good judgment, not haste, makes the difference between life and death. Panic is the enemy.
We judge and punish based on facts, but facts are not truth. Facts are like a buried skeleton uncovered long after death. Truth is fluid. Truth is alive. To know the truth requires understanding, the...
The stillest thing in the world is the corpse of someone you loved. A hunk of cold granite seems more alive than a dead human being. You don't expect a stone to move. A person robbed of all motion and...
She’s floating outside in the maternal holding pattern all women learn after they have children, one that serves them well after grandchildren come along.
Rumor runs through the community like a plague, and truth is the first casualty.
Lenz snorts. My mistake.