It struck her how eating was a comfort during a hard time because it reminded you that there had been other days, good days, when you’d eaten the same thing. Reminded you there were good days in life,...
There Peter was, looking straight into the very eyes of God, walking the Sea of Galilee and then all of the sudden up to his neck in water. Some would argue he lacked the true believing, I say he had...
One thing's sure and nothing surer. The rich get richer and the poor get- children
A place where something so terrible had happened shouldn't continue to exist in the world
Most folks stay in the dark and then complain they can’t see nothing.
You got one choice at the beginning, but if you didn't choose right..things got narrow real quick.
The ReleaseIn those last moments beforethe platter of salt and dirtlay on his stomach, wax-lighthad waved across a mute heart, his son waited by the bed.Raised to believe the soul leftthe body with it...
We want what's in this world but we also want what ain't.
Pemberton felt something shift inside him, something small but definite, the way a knob's slight twist allowed a door to swing wide open.
She’d never known fear had a taste, but it did.
A great business investment, religion. I’ll take it over government bonds anytime.
It’s ever been the way of the man of science or philosophy. Most folks stay in the dark and then complain they can’t see nothing.
A copperhead lay coiled. Part of me not sight knew it was there. The atavistic like flint rock sparked. Amazon tribes see Venus in daylight. My grandfather needed no watch to tell time. What more migh...
A day so perfect that the earth itself seemed sorry to let it pass, so slowed down its roll into evening and let it linger.
His great-aunt had been born on this land, lived on it eight decades, and knew it as well as she knew her husband and children. That was what she’d always claimed, and could tell you to the week when...
Another memory comes, not of the final time I saw Ligeia but a week before she disappeared, something mundane yet vivid. The mystery of memory. There's surely some scientific explanation for why the b...
Then her mind had wandered into a place she could not follow, taking with it all the people she knew, their names and connections, whether they still lived or whether they’d died. But her body lingere...
But nothing is solid and permanent. Our lives are raised on the shakiest foundations. You don't need to read history books to know that. You only have to know the history of your own life.
The name's Old Testament derivation did not surprise him. Campbell's first name was Exra, and there was an Absalom and a Solomon in the camp. But no Lukes or Matthews, which Buchanan had once noted, t...
She realized that being starved for words was the same as being starved for food, because both left a hollow place inside you, a place you needed filled to make it through another day. Rachel remember...
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