But you live your life at the time you live it—you don’t have much of an overview when what’s happening to you is still happening.
Your memory is a monster; you forget - it doesn't.
What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us wind up in parentheses.
One day, Jenny Fields thought, she would like to have a baby – just one.
Ni siquiera una sorpresa,
My brain is sending poison to my heart.
Most places we leave in childhood grow less, not more, fancy.
Many things the gods achieve beyond our judgement,' said the sorrowful girl. 'What we thought is not confirmed and what we thought not God contives.
MAYBE YOU SHOULD BE AN ENGLISH MAJOR. AT LEAST, YOU GET TO READ STUFF THAT'S WRITTEN BY PEOPLE WHO CAN WRITE! YOU DON'T HAVE TO DO ANYTHING TO BE AN ENGLISH MAJOR, YOU DON'T NEED ANY SPECIAL TALENT, Y...
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Jenny decided that all manifestations of her innocence were futile and appeared defensive.
It was a sound like someone trying not to make a sound.
INTO PARADISE MAY THE ANGELS LEAD YOU,
Dear God! the cook cried. Soon all the wood on Twisted River will be pulpwood—for paper! What about toboggans is worse than paper? Books are made from paper! Ketchum declared. What role do toboggans p...
Behind every journey is a reason,
At times, he admitted, he had been very happy in the apple business. He knew what Larch would have told him: that his happiness was not the point, or that it wasn't as important as his usefulness.
Am I not here, for I am your mother?
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 is no nakedness that compares to being naked in front of someone for the first time.