“Of course if a person looked at his life from above, he could see the whole thing for what it was; he'd only feel lost while he was living it, when he still hadn't figured out that it was in… — Kathryn Davis Copy Share Image
“I think she was in a book club for a while, but she quit when they stopped talking about the books and started talking… — Kathryn Davis Copy Share Image
“Everyone knew the meaning of a thing didn't emerge until there'd been an ending and you could finally see how all the parts worked… — Kathryn Davis Copy Share Image
“In my lap I had my dear little pug, the smell of whose ears will always be sweeter to me than all the perfumes… — Kathryn Davis Copy Share Image
“Of course if a person looked at his life from above, he could see the whole thing for what it was; he'd only feel… — Kathryn Davis Copy Share Image
“As the sweet apple reddens on a high branch, high on the highest branch the apple pickers forgot -- no, not forgot: were unable… — Kathryn Davis Copy Share Image
“Were we sexually intimate? What difference could it possibly make to you?” — Kathryn Davis Copy Share Image
“She tried to hear his heartbeat through the fabric of his tuxedo jacket, and the fact that she wasn't sure whether she could hear… — Kathryn Davis Copy Share Image
“She thought it was probably a good idea to like being looked at if you were a girl—it was probably key to survival. If… — Kathryn Davis Copy Share Image
“Everybody thinks it’s going to be different for them, Janice said. The dinosaurs thought so too.” — Kathryn Davis Copy Share Image
“Two adolescent girls on a hot summer night--hardly the material of great literature, which tends to endow all male experience (that of those twin… — Kathryn Davis Copy Share Image
“You could try making sense out of the universe, but you were too small and the parts you needed to see were too large… — Kathryn Davis Copy Share Image
“It's a miracle, really, that any of the royal children went on to become King. But maybe there's no version of childhood that could… — Kathryn Davis Copy Share Image
“Coming to meet her love Miss Vicks had often had this sense of thwarted will, like when a large insect flies mistakenly into a… — Kathryn Davis Copy Share Image
“They never got over it. They had to harden their hearts so they wouldn't keep breaking.” — Kathryn Davis Copy Share Image
