successful parenting was like log rolling, and she'd often landed in the drink.
“If this was adulthood, the only improvement she could detect in her situation was that now she could eat dessert without eating her vegetables.”
“All readers come to fiction as willing accomplices to your lies. Such is the basic goodwill contract made the moment we pick up a work of fiction.”
“There's something incredibly liberating about a holiday that encourages children to take candy from strangers”
“It is in these moments of tender and ridiculous nostalgia that I know something inside me is still broken.”
Most forms of rage, after all, are only sloppy cloaks for grief.
We grow because we struggle, we learn and overcome.
Risk is an essential part of progress.
When faced with disaster, learn to laugh faster.
You did not mention the name of some rich millionaire just by saving anywhere
Rejection reveals your character.
One of the strengths I derive from my class background is that I am accustomed to contempt.
Teenagers are free verse walking around on two legs.
Writing is the only way I know to demand justice from an uncaring universe.
You're a chip shot away from everything you've ever wanted.
Beneath the excuse lies your destiny.
“With the discrimination like it was, I was looking for somebody to break the color barrier.”
“Seeing this and what I saw yesterday, there are no words to describe it. I didn't realize it was as bad as it was until yesterday when we were driving around.”
“Our defense played well enough to win this game. We just had no offense.”
“Given that, and given the challenges there are in our core business over the half year, the performance and the result are very encouraging.”
Tradition is the illusion of permanance.
Don't wait to buy real estate. Buy real estate and wait.
If one cannot command attention by one's admirable qualities one can at least be a nuisance.
Many an optimist has become rich by buying out a pessimist.