“He knows that for all the undeserved bounty of his life, she will always be there, at the edge of his vision, to remind him of all the things he can never have.” — 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
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
The life of a plural wife, she'd found, was a life lived under constant comparison, a life spent wondering. Sitting across from her sister-wives… — Brady Udall Copy Share Image
“There was one difference I would come to realize, between white kids and Indians. Among white kids there are tattletales everywhere. Indians? An Indian… — Brady Udall Copy Share Image
“It's a wonderful epiphany: with a lie I can change reality; with a lie I can change the world.” — Brady Udall Copy Share Image
