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.
That there is such pleasure in enmity that after a while it cannot be left off even if one would will it. Another thing is also true, that when a quarrel is new, one’s friends hold one back, and give...
Surprised. Then everyone, by unspoken
Said, looking for a job on Broadway.
Contemplate the difference between a reason and an excuse. A reason is its own reward, but an excuse leads to disappointment every time.
Who you are shapes how you are loved.
What do you think makes you start laughing and unable to stop?
We knew right off how to think of them but not precisely how to feel about them.
The plant succession that had begun in March with snowdrops and early crocuses would soon flicker out in a blaze of orange chrysanthemums and show its last pinpoints of color in bittersweet and ash be...
The best that can happen to a girl, Claire, is to be a bit plain, like you. You think I’m being unkind, but I am telling you a truth. A plain girl has a longer time to herself, and when a man falls in...
She knew she had become the strange sort of lady that she remembered noticing as a child, the sort of lady who was always neat and kind, whose house was quiet because there were no children, who hoste...
JOE COULDN’T STAND the noise. The giant room they
I’m not strange to myself, but I realize that I contrast with others fairly sharply.
I loved the house the way you would any new house, because it is populated by your future.
Hmmph, said Mrs. Walker, or rather, without speaking, she launched this hmmph into the air of the room and allowed it to float there.
Her parents took her very seriously; she had trained them, with a combination of treats and punishments, to allow her to do as she pleased and express herself, and to pay attention to her opinions. Th...
Dean Harstad had unbounded patience, the very patience that drove Chairman X bananas, patience as a weapon.
And she had gone off from her husband to live by herself with the priests, had she not? Does a man, seeing a trinket lying before him in the grass, fail to pick it up?
A child who is protected from all controversial ideas is as vulnerable as a child who is protected from every germ. The infection, when it comes- and it will come- may overwhelm the system, be it the...
When your parents don’t like you, then you are free.