My dad had this rock hard body and would work 12- to 13-hour days. The guys he worked with were scrap-iron guys. Nobody on that road crew had read a book in 10 years, but there was something about the...
Odd that the future should be so difficult to bring into focus when the past, uninvited, offered itself up so easily for inspection.
I think that if people are instructed about anything, it should be about the nature of cruelty. And about why people behave so cruelly to each other. And what kind of satisfactions they derive from it...
We don’t forgive people because they deserve it, she said. We forgive them because we deserve it.
It was hard to imagine him in love. I knew that he and my mother must have once felt passion, since that was what love entailed, but I was grateful that over time the madness had evolved into somethin...
Probably horse doo had a name in french also, but that didn't mean god intended for you to eat it.
Really? When? Had all his material become threadbare? After thirty years of marriage, were you supposed to come up with new stuff all the time?
She looked like a woman who had spent her whole life waiting in line.
She never answers during the day, Max explained. She lets her machine pick up.People like you are the reason other people get answering machines to begin with, Miles told him. In fact, people like you...
Knowing and knowing what to do about it were two different things.
I don't now how you could not kid about love and still claim to have a sense of humor
An imperfect human heart, perfectly shattered, was her conclusion. A condition so common as to be virtually universal, rendering issues of right and wrong almost incidental.
A silly lie. A lie so small and to so little purpose that it suggested to Miles a way of life, a strategy for confronting the world, and this was further reason—if any was needed—to doubt the truth of...
Who but an English professor would threaten to kill a duck a day and hold up a goose as an example?
He wasn't always trying to say witty things, and when he did say them, he felt no need to repeat them for changing company.
It pleased him to imagine God as someone like his mother, someone beleagured by too many responsibilities, too dog-tired to monitor an energetic boy every minute of the day, but who, out of love and f...
Mr. Purty has cheered me up. The task he has chosen for himself, of wooing my mother with a bright red pickup truck, a Patsy Cline tape, and a string of malapropisms, is ample justification to me for...
Tick's strategy for dealing with lying adults is to say nothing and watch thee lies swell and constrict in their throats. when this happens, the lie takes on a physical life of its own and must be eit...
Say I told you so. They're the four most satisfying words in the English language. You could rupture something trying to keep them inside you.
Let us not forget Colby and the liberating effects of higher education. Though it doesn’t liberate everyone, does it?
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