Then he pointed to the top of the fire, where the snapping yellow flames dissolved into an invisible shimmery heat that made the desert beyond seem to waver, like a mirage. Dad told us that zone was k...
The road was called Agnes weeps, after the town's first schoolteacher, who had burst into tears when she saw how plunging and twisting the road was and realized how remote the town must be. But from t...
The dangerous falls were the ones that happened so fast you didn't have time to react
Life's too short to worry about what other people think,'' Mom said.''Anyway, they should accept us for who we are.
Job, chapter fourteen, verse seven, Aunt Al said. ‘For there is hope for a tree, if it is cut down, that it will sprout again, and that its tender shoots will not cease.’
It (the sun) didn't really care how I felt, it was going to rise and set regardless of whether I noticed it, and if I was going to enjoy it, that was up to me.
History gets written by the winners, he said, and when the crooks win, you get crooked history.
Everyone has something good about them, she said. You have to find the redeeming quality and love the person for that.
Every household needs one piece of furniture in really bad taste.
As awful as he could be, I always knew he loved me in a way no one else ever had.
And if the world went to hell in a handbasket-as it seemed to be doing-you could say good-bye to everyone and retreat to your land, hunkering down and living off it.
A wind picked up, rattling the windows, and the candle flames suddenly shifted, dancing along the border between turbulence and order.
That was the thing to remember about all monsters, Dad said: They love to frighten people, but the minute you stare them down, they turn tail and run. All you have to do, Mountain Goat, is show old De...
She knew how to get by on next to nothing. pg. 21
It was your inner spirit and not your outward appearance that mattered,
If you want to be reminded of the love of the Lord, Mom always said, just watch the sunrise. And if you want to be reminded of the wrath of the Lord, Dad said, watch a tornado.
If I owned hell and west Texas, he said, I do believe I'd sell west Texas and live in hell.
I wondered if the fire had been out to get me. I wondered if all fire was related, like Dad said all humans were related, if the fire that had burned me that day while I cooked hot dogs was somehow co...
I wanted to let the world know that no one had a perfect life, that even people who seemed to have it all had their secrets.
I hate Erma, I told Mom...You have to show compassion for her... She added that you should never hate anyone, even your worst enemies. Everyone has something good about them, she said. You have to fin...