Joy had never before been to a university party where there were no drinks, and her immediate reaction was that she just couldn’t find it, that there was a bar somewhere in the house where a nice youn...
This is my thought, that for every soul, something must come to pass, and for everything that does come to pass, every soul can imagine many things that might have come to pass, all of them less evil...
In her minds eye she sat there, in the domesticated golden sunlight on the velvet sofa, lapped around by carpets and books and mahogany, solitary and content, as if, in fact, cloistered.
I learned why 'out riding alone' is an oxymoron: An equestrian is never alone, is always sensing the other being, the mysterious but also understandable living being that is the horse.
Contemplate the difference between a reason and an excuse. A reason is its own reward, but an excuse leads to disappointment every time.
The two of them prayed to Jesus that they might learn their lessons sooner rather than later, and that they would be gentle lessons rather than hard lessons.
I’m not strange to myself, but I realize that I contrast with others fairly sharply.
Some folk learned the nature of God, that He was merciful, having spared a husband or some cattle, that He was strict, having meted out hard punishment for small sins, that He was attentive, having se...
My mom was paranoid about my safety.
Mom was a smoker. My grandfather was a smoker. My aunts were smokers. My uncles were smokers. I don't know any smokers now, not even my mom.
English majors understand human nature better than economists do.
What it feels like to resist without seeming to resist, to absent yourself while seeming respectful and attentive.
What would happen to others, not oneself. Rosanna thought that was what accounted for the crowd’s
Daddy thinks history starts fresh every day, every minute, that time itself begins with the feelings he’s having right now. That’s how he keeps betraying us, why he roars at us with such conviction. W...
It was not that he felt that the world would damage or hurt Frankie in any way, it was much more that there were plenty of things out in the world that Frankie would learn about, and that he would the...
Is human nature basically good or evil? No economist can embark upon his profession without considering this question, and yet they all seem to. And they all seem to think human nature is basically go...
She chewed the tender meat and sucked out the juices and felt the sauce coat her tongue and roll down her throat. After that, he looked still better. Another
We came to the corner, waited for the light, and crossed. I had no idea where we were going. I said, I didn’t realize you were so depressed. I was depressed, but that was a side issue. This was more l...
Mary had nice clothes, too, ones she had worked hard for over the summer,
The fact is that the same sequence of days can arrange themselves into a number of different stories.
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