The other two of her three kids stood on the covered front porch, tails wagging, feet dancing. One of the best things about dogs, to Fiona’s mind, was their absolute joy in welcoming you home, whether you’d been gone for five minutes or five days. There lay unconditional and boundless love.
What’s wrong with standing in the same place if it’s a good place?” “Even a good place gets to be a rut, especially if you’re standing in it alone. Honey, alone and lonely share the same root.
I’m going to treat myself to one of these as a reward for not knocking himself unconscious with a skillet.
Feelings are feelings. I don’t understand why people blame other people for what they feel.
Oh, it was just me – that’s why.
She knew I was coming to see you, so I don’t think she’ll be surprised.
I read everything. It was one of the most surefire ways to go somewhere else for a while.
Power should come from work, time, effort. Care,” he added. “As the most important things do.
I think you should do what makes you happy. And sometimes doing what makes you happy is harder and scarier than doing what’s safe.
Why did they make babies so damn small? And loud. Surely better arrangements could be made for the propagation of the human race.
You couldn’t erase the past, or kill it, or wish it out of existence. Nor could you will away the present or change what was coming. We were all trapped in that cycle of time, just circling around the core of yesterdays. Sometimes those yesterdays were strong enough, willful enough, to suck you back no matter how hard you struggled.
She started to sound like Charlie Brown’s mother to him. Just a nasal wah-wah-wah. He loved her, he really did, but he imagined Charlie Brown loved his mother, too. It didn’t make her any more comprehensible.
Only a fool asked for more sorrow. Only a romantic believed that bitterness could ever be sweet.
What I’m saying – I take a good snapshot. Slices of life, the kids and all, I mean. And it’s important to have the record, those memories. But what you do, it just grabs emotions right out.
Do you ever wonder at the arrogance of men who think they alone exist in the Universe?
But sometimes you know one thing and feel another.
I believe in payback. For the little things, for the big ones. For everything in between. Letting people screw you over is just lazy and uncreative.
It takes about ten seconds for a puppy to get bored. Bored puppies chew. Happy puppies chew. Sad puppies chew.
Love doesn’t require payment. Cam’s right about that. There are no checks and balances here.
Ends and beginnings – there are no such things. There are only middles. ROBERT FROST.