Kids chase the love that eludes them, and for me, that was my father's love. He kept it tucked away, like papers in a briefcase. And I kept trying to get in there.
Jack, she said, I just spoke to our son. Mr. Harding to see Ron Jennings.
It was a cutthroat business, dog eat dog, the strong preying on the weak. In the lifestyle I was in, people were killed. It happened every day.
If you don’t respect the other person, you’re gonna have a lot of trouble. If you don’t know how to compromise, you’re gonna have a lot of trouble. If you can’t talk openly about what goes on between...
If you could pack for heaven, this was how you'd do it, touching everything, taking nothing.
If we tend to the things that are important in life, if we are right with those we love, and behave in line with our faith, our lives will not be cursed with the aching throb of unfulfilled business....
I traded lots of dreams for a bigger paycheck, and I never even realized I was doing it.
Holding on to things only breaks your heart.
His hair fell out, his face went gaunt as a skeleton.
He tells my parents how I took every class he taught. He tells them, You have a special boy here. Embarrassed, I look at my feet. Before we leave, I hand my professor a present, a tan briefcase with h...
He explained how once we began to chime the hour, we lost the ability to be satisfied. There was always a quest for more minutes, more hours, faster progress to accomplish more in each day. The simple...
Have you ever dreamt of someone who’s gone,but in the dream you have new conversation? The world you enter then is not so far from the world I'm in now.
Grace.
For many of us, the curtain had just come down on childhood.
Fate succumbs many a species: one alone jeopardises itself. —W. H. AUDEN,
Everyone knows they’re going to die, he said again, but nobody believes it. If we did, we would do things differently.
Eddie thought about the years that followed his father’s funeral.How he never achieved anything, how he never went anywhere. For all that time, Eddie had imagined a certain life—a could have been life...
Eddie admitted that some of his life he'd spent hiding from God, and the rest of the time he thought he went unnoticed.
Dor felt a warm, calming feeling when he said those words—She is my wife—because ever since they were children she was like the sky to him, forever around.
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