Unlike Rosa, I can see no divine purpose behind the tangle of this existence, no ordering hand. It is all a mystery, or more accurately, a mess. There are no heroes or villains, no saviors or demons or angels. Only… — Brady Udall Copy Share Image
“If I could tell you only one thing about my life it would be this: when I was seven years old the mailman ran over my had. As formative events go, nothing else comes close; my careening, zigzag existence, my wounded brain and faith in God, my collisions with joy and affliction, all of it has come, in one way… — Brady Udall Copy Share
For most affairs, this eventually becomes the most fundamental of questions, the only one that matters: Do we love each other more than the… — Brady Udall Copy Share Image
...Families are Forever, and wondered if the slogan was meant as a promise or a threat. — Brady Udall Copy Share Image
If I could tell you only one thing about my life, it would be this: When I was 7 years old, the mailman ran… — Brady Udall Copy Share Image
“Because this, after all, was the basic truth they all chose to live by: that love was no finite commodity. That it was not… — Brady Udall Copy Share Image
“For Golden it was hard not to think that there might be something wrong about a household in which the dog was wearing underwear… — Brady Udall Copy Share Image
“She considered, maybe for the first time, how lucky she was to be able to pick up the phone and call her mother whenever… — Brady Udall Copy Share Image
“When she's next to him, when she rests her hand on his, his whole body aches with something like knowledge for all he has… — Brady Udall Copy Share Image
“But Golden's dark form in the doorway had imprinted something new and painful on the hard plates of her chest: that old devil, hope.… — Brady Udall Copy Share Image
“. . . Golden would find himself thinking that if he ever became delusional or foolhardy enough to outfit one of his houses with… — Brady Udall Copy Share Image
If I could tell you only one thing about my life it would be this: when I was seven years old the mailman ran… — Brady Udall Copy Share Image
“Even in the midst of all this commotion she knows none of it really belongs to her, and marvels at the strange fact of… — Brady Udall Copy Share Image
