Picking five favorite books is like picking the five body parts you'd most like not to lose.
No milk, I said.No milk, said my sister.I watched my dad think about this. He looked like he was going to suggest that we have something for breakfast that you do not need milk for, like sausages, but...
It is good for children to find themselves facing the elements of a fairy tale - they are well-equipped to deal with these
Rule number one: Don't fuck with librarians.
Soon enough his head would be swimming with tales of derring-do and high adventure, tales of beautiful maidens kissed, of evildoers shot with pistols or fought with swords, of bags of gold, of diamond...
People named Tinkerbell name their daughters Susan.
You hurt. It's okay. I hurt too. Hold my hand.
It occurred to me then that the man might not be mad; I found this far more disquieting than the alternative.
She tasted the day he lost his first job. She tasted the morning he had awakened, still drunk, in his car, in the middle of a cornfield, and, terrified, had sworn off the bottle for ever. She knee his...
Lives are snowflakes - unique in detail, forming patterns we have seen before, but as like one another as peas in a pod (and have you ever looked at peas in a pod? I mean, really at them? There's not...
It's harder to pick and choose when you're dead. It's like a photograph, you know. It doesn't matter as much.
His beard was all colors, a grove of trees in autumn, deep brown and fire-orange and wine-red, an untrimmed tangle across the lower half of his face. His cheeks were apple-red. He looked like a friend...
I will not be my father's dog.
Don't confuse the teacher with the lesson, the ritual with the ecstasy, the transmitter of the symbol with the symbol itself.
Every lover is, in his heart, a madman, and, in his head, a minstrel.
I'll show you an imaginative re-creation, my fist imaginatively re-creating your fucken face for starters.
I suspect that most authors don't really want criticism, not even constructive criticism. They want straight-out, unabashed, unashamed, fulsome, informed, naked praise, arriving by the shipload every...
Have been unavoidably detained by the world. Expect us when you see us.
I’m just a soul whose intentions are good,’ he sang to the crabs and the spiders and the palmetto beetles and the lizards and the night. ‘Oh lord, please don’t let me be misunderstood.
Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all...
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