Happiness, I have grasped, is a destination, like strawberry Fields. Once you find the way in, there you are, and you'll never feel low again.
The reactions of others were actually another lesson she'd learned about change. When change happened to an individual, it happened to everyone around her - sometimes in ways she wished for, though so...
So you never know when you can get through.p 179 Jack the Bus Driver talking about helping a woman on the bus who was an alcoholic
She’s sad in the way Laura wears glasses and Max has freckles and Beth is retarded. There’s no reason, it’s just the way it is.
Maybe we are all Beths, boarding other people's life journeys, or letting them hop aboard ours. For a while we ride together. A few minutes, a few miles. Companions on the road, sharing our air and ou...
I'm rent! I'm rent! as if she were hurling a challenge with all her might beyond the limits of the sky.
Ah, look at that sunrise! Tim says at the first stoplight, lifting his arms toward the windshield. Four billion sunrises, over the dinosaurs, the pharaohs, and now ours today. And no one’s ever the sa...
A small happiness can make a big sadness less sad.
A rainy day can actually be a very important day. And a small hope isn't really small if it makes a lost hope less sad.
A person comes into the world with a fist-and a grasp. Yes, we are built to fight one another, but also to embrace. How cleverly we are created.
[S]he spontaneously threw back her head and trumpeted,I'm rent! I'm rent! as if she were hurling a challenge with all her might beyond the limits of the sky.
Yes, we can all cart our fractured selves along as we move through our lives. But we can choose whether we keep plodding along the same rutted road, or take a turn we'd never thought was ours to take.
Well, ain't that just the way of the world. Everything come to an end, whether you wants it to or not. All that nature out there: over. The Snare: dead and gone. Even a love that make a man giddy and...
How many other lives are hidden, and hearts are seeking? How many would give anything in the world to be held by the person they love?
Sometimes you think you know what you want, she said, hugging her children, until you see how much more you can have.
I realize, as the tightness yields in my shoulders and hips and feet, that Beth might well have wanted me to meet her drivers because I needed them, too.p 167
I lost myself, but in the end that helped me find myself. You’ve just got to have faith and work at it. With anything? I ask. Anything, she says, as a gap finally opens in the intersection. As long as...
Follow your inclination. It will take you to thoughts you'd never know you'd had
But those were only the headlines. The more important stories lay deep inside...p 292
Say these like it’s nothing. Teachers will say, Obviously in the childlike actions taken by the innocent half-wit Lennie, you can see Steinbeck’s extraordinary literary blah blah blah, and you’re supp...