It occurs to her that there is one thing about people you can never understand well enough: how entirely inside themselves they are.
Anybody can get worked up, if they have the intention. It’s peacefulness that is hard to come by on purpose.
To think is not always to see.
War so conspicuously benefits rich men and kills the poor ones.
Bitter words normally evaporate with the moisture of breath, after a quarrel. In order to become permanent, they require transcribers, reporters, complicit black hearts.
When I want to take God at his word exactly, I take a peep out the window at His creation. Because that, darling, He makes fresh for us everyday...
Some of us know how we came by our fortune and some of us don’t; but we wear it all the same.
Culture is a slingshot moved by the force of its past.
Forgive me, O Heavenly Father, according to the multitude of Thy mercies. I have lusted in my heart to break a man’s skull and scatter the stench of his brains across several people’s back yards.
In the long run, most of us spend about fifteen minutes total in the entanglements of passion, and the rest of our days looking back on it, humming the tune.
You could love your crazy people, even admire them, instead of resenting that they’re not self-sufficient.
The past is all we know of the future.
He lifts her breasts, which fit perfectly into his hands, though he knows this is no promise that he gets to keep them. A million things you can’t have will fit in a human hand.
High fashion has the shelf life of potato salad. And when past its prime, it is similarly deadly.
Be careful what you give children, for sooner or later you are sure to get it back.
You can curse the dead or pray for them, but don’t expect them to do a thing for you. They’re far too interested in watching us, to see what in heaven’s name we will do next.
If you ask me, when something extraordinary shows up in your life in the middle of the night, you give it a name and make it the best home you can.
Over the last decade our country has lost an average of 300 farms a week. Large or small, each of those was the lifes work of a real person or family, people who built their lives around a promise and watched it break.
Sometimes I prayed for Baby Jesus to make me good, but Baby Jesus didn’t.
A human being can be good or bad or right or wrong, maybe. But how can you say a person is illegal? You just can’t. That’s all there is to it.