There are many unintentionally cruel talents that the world, indiscriminately, hands out to us. Whether we can use these gifts we never asked for is not the worlds concern.
The thing about sin, Jack, is that some people think it’s very important and other people don’t even believe it exists.
The day women stop reading—that’s the day the novel dies!
Sorrow floats.
She say to tell you you was the nicest, Muddy told the boy. She say to tell your dad he a hero, and that you was the nicest.
Okay, I said. I still have that photograph, though I don’t like remembering any part of the day Carlton Delacorte died.
Life, Garp wrote, is sadly not structured like a good old-fashioned novel. Instead an end occurs when those who are meant to peter out have petered out. All that is left is memory. But even a nihilist...
Lemties neįmanoma įžvelgti, nebent jei sapnuoji ar esi apsvaigęs iš meilės.
Juan Diego lived there, in the past—reliving, in his imagination, the losses that had marked him.
If you're a writer, the problem is that, when you try to call a halt to thinking about your novel-in-progress, your imagination still keeps going; you can't shut it off.
Clothes, whips, reading material, the customs officer had summarized, in Spanish and English, to the young American. Just the bare essentials! Edward Bonshaw
Among adults – and among orphans – Wilbur Larch noted that delirious happiness was rare.
A truly happy woman drives some men and almost every other woman absolutely crazy
Friends were more important than lovers - not least for the fact that friendships generally lasted longer than relationships.
The way you define yourself as a writer is that you write every time you have a free minute. If you didn't behave that way you would never do anything.
…there was no better company for an especially personal revelation than the company of virtual strangers.
While we waited to see what God would do. I heard a tear fall—it was one of my grandmother’s tears, and I heard it patter upon the cover of the Pilgrim Hymnal, which she held in her lap. Please give u...
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You can’t protect people, kiddo, Wally said. All you can do is love them.
Well, lion tamers are probably difficult to live with—I suppose there’s no small amount of testosterone involved in taming lions, Vargas said, shrugging.