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...
We want what's in this world but we also want what ain't.
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,...
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...
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
It was the kind of early fall day Rachel had always loved, not warm or cold, the sky all deep-blue and cloudless and no breeze, the crops proud and ripe and the leaves so pretty but hardly a one yet f...
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...
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.
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.
Then one morning she’d begun to feel her sorrow easing, like something jagged that had cut into her so long it had finally dulled its edges, worn itself down. That same day Rachel couldn’t remember wh...
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. – Snipes (185)
He suspected the workers thought of Serena as beyond gender, the same as they might some phenomenon of nature such as rain or lightning.
Not for the first time, it occurred to me that sorrow could be purified into song the same way a piece of coal is purified into a diamond.
I don’t even have a choice. Rachel thought how that was pretty much true of everything now, that you got one choice at the beginning but if you didn’t choose right, and she hadn’t, things got narrow r...
You men notice so little, Pemberton. Physical strength is your gender's sole advantage.
Nothing is but what is now
My experience has been that altruism is invariably a means to conceal one’s personal failures.
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...
Pemberton felt something shift inside him, something small but definite, the way a knob's slight twist allowed a door to swing wide open.
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