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.
Katherine would later reason that if anything were going to take away her beautiful, funny, precious older sister, it would be that her heart was so big, it exploded.
Jack, she said, I just spoke to our son. Mr. Harding to see Ron Jennings.
It was sad, the imbalance of it all. Why do kids assume so much from one parent and hold the other to a lower, looser standard?
In every artist’s life, there comes a person who lifts thecurtain on creativity. It is the closest you come to seeingme again.The first time, when you emerge from the womb, I am abrilliant color in th...
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...
I wasn't there when you died.That's not your fault.I never said good-bye.Such a needless word, she said, when you love somebody.
I traded lots of dreams for a bigger paycheck, and I never even realized I was doing it.
I am in love with Hope.
How do people choose their final words? Do they realize theirgravity? Are they fated to be wise?By his 83rd birthday, Eddie had lost nearly everyone he'd caredabout. Some had died young, and some had...
Heaven can be found in the most unlikely corners.
He mentioned a dear friend Morrie had, Maurie Stein, who had first sent Morrie's aphorisms to the Boston Globe. They had been together at Brandeis since the early sixties. Now Stein was going deaf. Ko...
He kept the outside world at bay by keeping the inside world at hand.
He could not feel agony. He could not feel sadness. His consciousness felt smoky, wisplike, incapable of anything but calm
Going back to something is harder than you think.
First loves often remain in the heart, like plants that cannot grow in sunlight.
Eddie told her he had made things square and her eyebrows lifted and her lips spread and Eddie felt and old, warm feeling he had missed for years, the simple act of making his wife happy
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...
Did you feel guilty cursing God--you, of all people?'No,' he said. 'Because even in doing so, I was recognizing there was a greater power than me.'
Consider the word time. We use so many phrases with it. Pass time. Waste time. Kill time. Lose time. In good time. About time. Take your time. Save time. A long time. Right on time. Out of time. Mind...