Jenny Fields felt undone, the way only a person who has been careful can feel when confronted by a mistake.
Jenny Fields discovered that you got more respect from shocking other people than you got from trying to live your own life with a little privacy.
If you can't love crudeness, how can you truly love mankind?
Easter is the main even; if you don't believe in the resurrection, you're not a believer.
DON'T GIVE ME THE SHIVERS,' Owen said.
But this is what we do: we dream on, and our dreams escape us almost as vividly as we can imagine them. That's what happens, like it or not. And because that is what happens, this is what we need: we...
A truly happy woman drives some men and almost every other woman absolutely crazy
Where our desires come from; that is a dark, winding road.
As a novelist, he was always looking ahead, too.)
…there was no better company for an especially personal revelation than the company of virtual strangers.
…there is no straightforward negotiation with a four year old…
Jefe’s
You take every opportunity given you in this world, even if you have too many opportunities. One day the opportunities stop, you know?
When people die, Vargas - I mean the people you will always remember, the ones who changed your life - they never really go away, Pepe told the young doctor.
When Jack Burns needed to hold his mother's hand, his fingers could see in the dark.
What Brother Pepe saw in Edward Bonshaw was a man who looked like he belonged—like a man who had never felt at home, but who’d suddenly found his place in the scheme of things.
We've been an empire in decline since I can remember, Ketchum said bluntly; he wasn't kidding. We are a lost nation, Danny. Stop farting around.
Was he nice? He didn’t know. He hoped he was, but how many of us truly know?
Three nights at the Hotel zum Storchen --- a decent hotel, Farrokh explained. Your room overlooks the Limmat. You can walk in the old town, or to the lake. Have you ever been in Europe?
There is no Purgatory-that's a catholic invention. There's life on earth, There's heaven-and there's hell