You cain’t dwell on sadness, oh, it’ll make you sick faster than anything in this world.
No, tesoro, credo ancora in Dio. E’ solo la parte su Adamo e Eva che mi fa sorgere un interrogativo.
Can any of you by worrying add a single hour to your span of life?’ Luke 12:25.
With the last of the sun fading, he could see the reflection of the green lights on the docks across the way and the stars twinkling in the river like small diamonds. What a show. This was better than any movie he had ever seen, and it was different every night. It was so wonderful at times he felt he wanted to do something about it, to try and stop time, make it last longer, but he didn’t know what to do.
Oh, I know a lot of people struggle, wondering is there really a God. They sit and think and worry over it all their life. The good Lord had to make smart people but I don’t think he did them any favors because it seems the smart ones start questioning things from the get go. But I never did. I’m one of the lucky ones. I thank God every night, my brain is just perfect for me, not too dumb, not too bright.
And when you wonder where I am, just look up at the sun and that’s where I’ll be.
She knew that being in love all by yourself was the loneliest, most painful experience known to man – or woman – and there was nothing she could do to help him.
They always wanted too much from her, something she could not give. She had told him over and over she would not marry him or ever live with him. But, typical of most men, they always believed she didn’t really mean what she said and would change her mind. She never did. Why did they always have to push her into a corner and get so upset? She didn’t want to live with anybody. She liked being alone. She hated anybody grabbing at her, trying to smother her.
Almost losing one person you love shines a bright spotlight on life, and suddenly strips you of everything but your real feelings.
They always said, that once you’ve been to Milwaukee, you’re never the same.
They also learned that the very best way to start a marriage was with a good laugh.
There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. – ALBERT EINSTEIN.
After Elner Shimfissle accidentally poked that wasps’ nest up in her fig tree, the last thing she remembered was thinking “Uh-oh.
When someone old dies, it is even sadder. First you notice that the paper doesn’t come anymore, then gradually the lights are turned out, the gas turned off, the house gets locked up, and the yard is no longer kept up, then it goes on the market and new people come in and change everything. Elner.
Whenever Ida pointed celery at him, she meant business.
The problem was that Norvaleen had been in denial and also in McDonald’s, eating the cheeseburger special with fries. Evidently, the Diet Coke had not evened out the calories. What a shock.
There before her was a plate of perfectly fried green tomatoes and fresh cream-white corn, six slices of bacon, with a bowl of baby lima beans on the side and four huge light and fluffy buttermilk biscuits.
And as far as Norma was concerned, that was the main problem with life. You never knew what was going to happen from minute to minute, and more than anything in this world, Norma hated a surprise.
It was the story of her life and probably how she had survived this long: with a little talent and a lot of flair.
But you soon find out they don’t want to meet you, they want you to meet them.