Quote by Alice McDermott Download Open image ““And then I saw him waving to us from behind the sky’s reflection.”” — Alice McDermott ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“a glimpse of light reflected in his eyes. Stars shining there perhaps. Or the moon.” — Jenny Downham Copy Share Image
“A moment of reflection would bring the light closer so that you could better see the red flag waving in front of your blind… — Calvin W. Allison Copy Share Image
“she was looking at him as if he'd just dropped fully formed from the sky.” — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
“He looked to the sky for answers. I look at what's in front of me, what's around me, what's inside of me.” — Moira Young Copy Share Image
“I stared at the reflection in the mirror, trying to recognize the person looking back at me. It had been weeks since I started… — Dr. Erlange Elisme Copy Share Image
“You could see him coming from a distance, appearing out of nowhere like an angel, his silhouette seeming to rise from the ground in… — James McBride Copy Share Image
“And he saw the right evening star reflected in her eyes, and he saw the black cloud reflected in her eyes.” — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“His cheek bones were protruding and eyes were sunk. I waved at him but he stole the gaze.” — Ranjani Ramachandran Copy Share Image
“In front of him, nothing. He had a sudden glimpse of what he had considered invisible. The end of the world.” — Alessandro Baricco Copy Share Image
“Then I saw it. Little pins of light that grew larger as I watched, a city that seemed to bloom from the darkness, spreading… — Megan Chance Copy Share Image
“Some vestige of his race or of his sex made him think, whenever he looked out across the ocean: As it was before me and as it will be long after I’m gone. For the second time today, he touched his thumb to his fingertips. He could make it to the 1980s or 1990s, perhaps even to the next century,… — Alice McDermott Copy Share
“If you want to see how far we have not come from the cave and the woods, from the lonely and dangerous days of the prarie or the plain, witness the reaction of a modern suburban family, nearly ready for bed, when the doorbell rings or the door is rattled. They will stop where they stand, or sit bolt upright… — Alice McDermott Copy Share
“John Keane pressed his chest to the steering wheel as he put the key in the ignition, taking a deep breath as he did,… — Alice McDermott Copy Share Image
“The fourth contraction seized her and suddenly she was perspiring. She heard herself cry out and then she heard the children’s voices like sparks… — Alice McDermott Copy Share Image
“THE TINY SPIDERS that lived in the higher branches of the downed tree (which now meant the branches that lay on the other side of the crushed fence that separated front yard from back) were bright red. At the end of the day, even the careful children had the marks of them, bloody starbursts on their palms. And the smell… — Alice McDermott Copy Share
What makes a sentence, a phrase, a moment, or a scene delightful? Something about recognizing the truth in it, hearing the music in it, understanding, intuitively perhaps, that the words are just right. It's not a matter of even context - delight is not limited to scenes or descriptions of happiness or beauty - but of aesthetic appreciation of the… — Alice McDermott Copy Share
“Michael had slipped beyond the crest of the dune. Jacob was lying flat out now, on his stomach, his little men all before him,… — Alice McDermott Copy Share Image
“Not a soul,” Mary Keane said to her husband, the wind lifting her words, tossing them gently back over her shoulder, the way it… — Alice McDermott Copy Share Image
“There wasn’t a tear to be seen on the faces of the men and women in the street as the two of them walked down to Schrafft’s. Only him, again, leaning by the door, suit jacket and fedora, the sunlight striking gold, the leg he had favored bent back and pressed against the building. He was smoking a cigarette. He… — Alice McDermott Copy Share
“His love for his children bore down on his heart with the weight of three heavy stones. There were all his unnamed fears for them, and hopes for them. There was all he was powerless to change, including who they were—one too mild, one too easily tempted to be cruel, and the little girl (it was the weight of a… — Alice McDermott Copy Share
“Mr. Persichetti knew that six weeks before its time and with a good thirty-minute ride to the hospital once the ambulance came (would it… — Alice McDermott Copy Share Image
