To determine to go and to say it was to be halfway there
There are no ugly questions except those clothed in condescension.
Then it is better, sir, to love whom one cannot have?Probably better, Lancelot said. Certainly safer.
The sad ones are those who waste their energy in trying to hold it back, for they can only feel bitterness in loss and no joy in gain.
The quick pain of truth can pass away, but the slow, eating agony of a lie is never lost.
The medical profession is unconsciously irritated by lay knowledge.
The fields were fruitful, and starving men moved on the roads.
She seemed to know, to accept, to welcome her position, the citadel of the family, the strong place that could not be taken. And since old Tom and the children could not know hurt or fear unless she a...
Pa said, Won't you say a few words? Ain't none of our folks ever been buried without a few words. Connie led Rose of Sharon to the graveside, she reluctant. You got to, Connie said. It ain't decent no...
On the black earth on which the ice plants bloomed, hundreds of black stink bugs crawled. And many of them stuck their tails up in the air. Look at all them stink bugs, Hazel remarked, grateful to the...
Morning seems to come earlier every year I live.
It's a thing to see when a boy comes home.
I'm jus' pain covered with skin.
Gonna cuss an' swear an' here the poetry of folks talkin'.
Cathy's lies were never innocent. Their purpose was to escape punishment, or work, or responsibility, and they were used for profit. Most liars are tripped up either because they forget what they have...
At the roadsides I never had a really good dinner or a really bad breakfast.
All great and precious things are lonely.
Ain't you thinkin' what's it gonna be like when we get there? Ain't you scared it won't be nice like we thought?No, she said quickly. No, I ain't. You can't do that. I can't do that. It's too much - l...
It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those trait...
You don't even know where I'm going.I don't care. I'd like to go anywhere.