You have to believe it and you hate it. I don't have to and I think it's beautiful.
The infamous Rape of Nanking that occurred not long afterward, just 102 miles farther north, tells a story of what might have happened at my childhood home were it not for that commander.
The Womeldorf family loved music, and one of Daddy’s happiest memories was of the day his father came home from town bearing a morning glory horn Edison phonograph with round cylinder records. How on...
No, I said primly, I had no intention of being a writer because I wouldn’t want to add another mediocre writer to the world.
My dearest Friend, As I am urging our students to write a note to their mothers away from Shanghai, I think of you as a mother to so many of our Chinese girls. The greatness and depth of your love onl...
Like God in the Bible, they looked at what they had made and found it very good
John softened, and many years later he said to me, You know, if we were ever to divorce, I get the cat. There is a
Jess’s feelings about Leslie’s father poked up like a canker sore. You keep biting it, and it gets bigger and worse instead of better.
If you could hold your nose to avoid a stink, or close your eyes to cut out a sight, why not shut off your brain to avoid a thought?
Drive them out utterly, so they may never return and prey upon our people.
Dammit, Trotter. Don't try to make a stinking Christian out of me.
Corre um boato por ai, que a linda menina que vem hoje, pode ser a rainha que eles estão esperando.
But then, oh, my blessed, he smiled. I guess from that moment I knew I was going to marry Joseph Wojtkiewicz--God, pope, three motherless children, unspellable name and all. For when he smiled, he loo...
Burke Ellie
Brenda’s pouting voice broke in, Your girl friend’s dead, and Momma thought you was dead, too.
All my dreams of leaving, but beneath them I was afraid to go. I had clung to them, to Rass, yes, even to my grandmother, afraid that if I loosened my fingers an iota, I would find myself once more co...
A colleague of hers had discovered that the Biblical sentence found in John 4:7 contained all the sounds in nearly every known language.
One day when I was changing her diapers she took my hand and put it on her tummy, so I tickled her. My reward was her first smile.
They decided they were too hooked on money and success, so they bought that old farm and they’re going to farm it and think about what’s important.
Then Jess gave himself over to the numbness that was buzzing to be let out from a corner of his brain.