Part of being a writer is defending your vision and not caving in to outside pressures.
Look, Mother, I am never going to be thin. I’m Norwegian. If you wanted a thin daughter, you should not have married a man whose female ancestors carried cows home from the pasture.
Very few people mate for life with the people they fall for at twelve. Doesn’t mean is isn’t real, doesn’t mean it doesn’t hurt, doesn’t mean it doesn’t matter, but basically, we’re talking a practice swing in the big game of love.
Be sober, be vigilant because your adversary the Devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.
This is making me crazy. I hate relying on other people to save me, I hate being clingy, I hate it, and every time you show up, I lean on you. – Matilda Scarlet Veronica Betty Vilma Goodnight.
Nothing but good times ahead.
If you can’t be a good example, then be a terrible warning.
Zach had brought her a dog.
I like my afterglow with you in motion. I measure time by how your body sways.
I could shove this swizzle stick through his heart, Min thought. She would’nt do it, of course. The stick was plastic and not nearly pointed enough on the end.
It’s just that you don’t respect me enough to respect what I want. I have to want what you want or it doesn’t count or its’s no good. Well, I don’t want what you want. And I don’t see why I have to. I mean, as long as I respect what you want and let you live your life, why do you care?
A lot of really big trees had died to make that desk. His mother had probably gnawed them down, used her nails to saw the boards, and finished the decorative cutwork with her tongue.
He loved her all he could; but he couldn’t love her very much.
Dempseys are never in trouble. We just have stretches of life that are more interesting than others.
As far as I’m concerned the last good man went when Elvis died.
Everybody’s crooked. The trick is to find out how they’re bent.
Where were all the women gamblers? It wasn’t as if being a woman wasn’t a huge risk all by itself. Twenty-eight percent of female homocide victims were killed by husbands or lovers. Which, come to think of it, was probably why there weren’t any women gamblers. Living with men was enough of a gamble.
I’ll never forget my first time with you’ Min said as she edged the doughnut off her finger. ‘The earth moved, and then my mother asked my father who he was going down on at lunch.
Once you know the truth, it’s always obvious.
I believe things will work out for us if we just believe in ourselves.