No es buen momento para un terremoto, Lupe used to say. It’s not a good moment for an earthquake.
Mr. Wiggin injected a kind of horror-movie element into the Christmas miracle; to the rector, every Bible story was-if properly understood-threatening.
Many of Juan Diego's demons had been his childhood companions-he knew them so well, they were as familiar as friends.
Lupe was upset that the Japanese honeymooners were wearing surgical masks over their mouths and noses; she imagined the young Japanese couples were dying of some dread disease—she thought they’d come...
Just when you begin thinking of yourself as memorable, you run into someone who can't even remember having met you
I’m not a fortune-teller! Lupe said, but Juan Diego didn’t translate this. The woman you want is Soledad, Vargas said to Edward Bonshaw. What woman? I don’t want a woman! the new missionary cried; he’...
It´s natural to want someone you love to do what you want, or what you think would be good for them, but you have to let everything happen to them. You can't interfere with people you love any more th...
It's natural to want someone you love to do what you want, or what you think would be good for them, but you can't interfere with people you love anymore than you're supposed to interfere with people...
It was not necessarily what Ketchum might have said about the war in Iraq, or the never-ending mess in the Middle East, that particularly interested Danny or Six-Pack Pam. It was what Ketchum would ha...
It is occasionally necessary for me to tell Torontonians of the presence of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans; they tend to think of the Great Lakes as the waters of the world.
In this dirty-minded world you are either somebody's wife or somebody's whore, or fast on your way to becoming one or the other.
In addition to suffering her husband’s scathing portrayal of a shrewish wife and mother, Nana Victoria had to sit not more than two seats away from the transsexual wrestler!)
In Wally’s bedroom Homer marveled at how the world was simultaneously being invented and destroyed.Nothing marvelous about that, Dr. Larch would have assured him. At St. Cloud’s, except for the irrita...
Imagining something is better than remembering something.
If you're God's instrument, Owen, I said, how come you need my help to stuff a basketball?
If you are careful,' Garp wrote, 'if you use good ingredients, and you don't take any shortcuts, then you can usually cook something very good. Sometimes it is the only worthwhile product you can salv...
If I had to be anything, he told her, I'd probably be a socialist, but I don't want to be anything.
INTO PARADISE MAY THE ANGELS LEAD YOU,
IF SOME PREACHER’S AN ASSHOLE, THAT’S NOT PROOF THAT GOD DOESN’T EXIST! (page 286)
I have stood aside to see the phantoms of those days go by me. They are gone, and I resume the journey of my story.’ (David Copperfield)But all that night he lay awake because the phantoms of those da...