“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 brothers who found themselves adrift so many years ago in the dark northern woods for instance)… — 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
