You don’t like something about yourself, change it. If you’re okay with it, you gotta own it. There’s nothing in between.
In some ways, Mary thought, Irma lived her whole life anxious to get things over with, as if she knew the end of her story all along, and didn’t feel the middle pages worth the effort of a read.
You're so dehydrated I can hear you blink.
When you get older you think of sadness in a different way. You don't judge it so harshly.
Art isn't a product. It's an experience
Wake in bed and know, because dreams are not true, that the sun will be shining and it will not storm today.
Aunt Lovey used to tell me that if I wanted to be a writer, I needed a writer's voice. 'Read,' she'd say, 'and if you have a writer's voice, one day it will shout out, 'I can do that too!
The most successful people in the most impossible situations are the ones that are sure they're gonna get out of it, and they go on thinking that, even if they die trying.
You think about these words a lot, and there are not many things, when you come right down to it, that you'll be happy to see the end of.
What is it about sadness that can be so fulfilling?
Funny how you can measure time by pets that were not even your own.
Write,' she said, 'as if you'll never be read. That way you'll be sure to tell the truth.
Uncle Stash said you didn't have to be crazy to to do something stupid, just young.
How cruel it must be for a man to live past his soul.
I can't exactly say why I've chosen to write about the things that I am writing about. There are doubtless better stories from my life that I am missing, events and escapades I am not wise enough to k...
I feel, holding books, accommodating their weight and breathing their dust, an abiding love. I trust them, in a way that I can't trust my computer, though I couldn't do without it. Books are matter. M...
I felt the weight of my father's failures and the absence of my mother and I wondered who would teach me, or if a guy could learn on his own, what it means to be a man.
You don’t know if you ruined your kids or if they were born that way.
I was three inches taller but he could smell my fear.
The beach was empty and dark but she couldn't hear her fear over the call of the surf.
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