The sun was as flirty as Scarlett O'Hara with the Tarleton twins, breaking through the clouds in spectacular bursts that seemed like personal favors and then retreating for hours, days, and making us...
Not everything's funny, Mother.No, said Leola, so I guess when you can laugh,, it's all the sweeter.
I am the salt of the earth, and I do not believe in the ninety percent rigmarole that is organized religion. But miracles? Miracles, my friend are a different thing entirely. From what I can see, mira...
We laughed harder than the humor deserved, which goes to show you no matter your age, you're closer to adolescence than you think.
She felt like a bad actress in a play she never wanted to be in.
A few years back, when I finally got smart enough to go to a therapist, she asked me how I had held things together all these years. It didn’t take long to come up with an answer. That’s easy. I belon...
I guess when someone's really hurt you, there always seems to be a possibility for more.
When Wade brought you home, I thought, Now here's a girl with a little fire in her. And where there's fire, there's usually smoke.
Good posture and an attitude let you get away with anything.
Books were her easiest friends. They demanded nothing from her but her attention.
I used to think love could save anything, but it can't if the vessel's cracked.
I fear the democratization of plastic surgery, when it's so cheap that everyone - the butcher, the baker, and the candlestick maker - goes under the knife and winds up looking like these tightly pulle...
A few years back, when I finally got smart enough to go to a therapist, she asked me how I had held things together all these years.It didn't take long to come up with an answer. 'That's easy. I belon...
In the beginning God created light... to read by.
Women with minds scare some men. We make them wonder if they're as on top of things as they think they are.
Sister Ignatius taught me in Sunday School that in the beginning there was light, but to me, it was always an incomplete sentence, which God should have known to ammend: in the beginning God created l...
It's the rare person whose outside matches up with who they are inside.
I hate the way bitterness is like a black, bubbling tar pit in me, and I hate the way so many memories of you are in that pit.
Honey, life can be a ballroom dance and it can be full of shit. Your job in both cases is to watch where you step.
What I had come to love about book club (besides the fabulous desserts and free liquor) was how in hearing so many opinions about the same book, your own opinion expanded, as if you'd read the book se...