Say what you like about melodrama, it beats confusion. The truth is we ought have a chance to say a little something when it’s getting dark. We ought to have a closing scene.
She kept looking away then back to me, as though at a nice surprise. This was maybe best of all. I never once expected to be someone’s nice surprise.
Sleep that day was a warm pool in which I dove and stayed, sporadically lifting my head to sense the world.
Sleep that day was a warm pool into which I dove and stayed, sporadically lifting my head to sense the world.
Dudgeon
Someday, you know, we're going to be shown the great ledger of our recorded decisions-a dread concept you nonetheless know in your deepest soul is true.
Sometimes heroism is nothing more than patience, curiosity, and a refusal to panic.
Sometimes it seems every woman I meet is more than a match for me.
Is worry’s sly assassin.
The man on the water stood forty yards out.
Then Israel Finch got to his feet and pointed the light at Dolly. He told Tommy to hold her arms, and Tommy roared as if they were the funniest words in his reduced language. Realizing his cut wasn’t...
There is no better sound than whom you adore when they are sleepy and pleased
They came one at a time or in shy small groups. I remember when sea-kindly showed up, a sentimental favorite, followed by desiccated and massive. Brusque appeared all by itself, which seemed apt; merr...
This was maybe best of all. I never once expected to be someone's nice surprise.
Waltzer was stirred by the boy’s assurance under stress. Waltzer believed in invented destiny and invented some then and there.
We and the world, my children, will always be at war.Retreat is impossible.Arm yourselves.
One of her recent letters asks, Is it hubris to believe we all live epics? (Perhaps it is, but I suspect she’s not actually counting on me for an answer.)
We see a newborn moth unwrapping itself and announce, Look, children, a miracle! But let an irreversible wound be knit back to seamlessness? We won't even see it, though we look at it every day.
What makes a Samaritan good is the possibility of the lunge.
You are no failure, on a river. The water moves regardless - for all it cares, you might be a minnow or a tadpole, a turtle on a beavered log. You might be nothing at all.
Showing 81 to 100 of 121 results