Sometimes, he told her, leaning forward over the table, speaking without realizing how it would sound, I begin with songs. They provide a sort of skeleton grammar for me to flesh out. Songs of longing...
So much of what he knew about religion struck him as total bullshit; he was disarmed when the fathers freely admitted that some stories were in fact pious fictions. But, judging his character, they da...
So God just leaves? John asked, angry where Emilio had been desolate. Abandons creation? You’re on your own, apes. Good luck! No. He watches. He rejoices. He weeps. He observes the moral drama of huma...
One thing I can say for certain. There�'s just no telling whom God will take a liking to.
My life has a certain amusing symmetry, if viewed with sufficient detachment.
It came to Morgan that Nicholas must have been a beaten boy, too, and that meant Grampa Earp was, as well. Which was no surprise, really, when Morg thought about that mean old man. How many sons were...
IF YOU WANT A STORYBOOK ENDING, stop—now—and remember them in that tender moment. Be content to know that they embarked on a series of adventures throughout the West and that they stayed together thro...
I want to belong with someone. I want to feel at the center of something, and not the edge. I want children and grandchildren. I don't want to grow old and die, knowing that when I die, there will be...
I suppose I should warn you, Padre. In the absence of male supervision, my mother has become a revolutionary. ~Renzo Leoni
I believe in God the way I believe in quarks, she said coolly. People whose business it is to know about quantum physics or religion tell me they have good reason to believe that quarks and God exist....
Home...if there is a more beautiful word in any language, I do not know it.
His entire experience in this city sounded better than it lived. John
He wondered then if Jesus expected gratitude as Lazarus emerged, stinking, from the crypt. Maybe Lazarus was a disappointment to everyone, too.
He felt as though he were a prism, gathering up God’s love like white light and scattering it in all directions, and the sensation was nearly physical, as he caught and repeated as much of what everyo...
God will break your heart.
God save us from idealists! They dream of a world without injustice, and what crime won't they commit to get it! I swear, Mirella, I'll settle for a world with good manners.
For he had never heard anything like it--did not know such music existed in the world--and it was hard to believe that a man he knew could play it with his own two hands. There were parts of it like b...
Do you know what made me fall in love with you? George asked suddenly. Anne shook her head, puzzled that he should ask her this now. I heard you laugh, down the hall, just before I got to Spanish clas...
Dead men don’t pay for baths, haircuts, meals, or beds. Dead men don’t buy new clothes, or ammunition, or saddles. Dead men don’t desire fancy Coffeyville boots with Texas stars laid into the shank. T...
She wondered if men ever figured out that they were more appealing when they were pursuing their own work than when they were pursuing a woman.