Quote by Alice McDermott Download Open image ““He was pale as salt. Although”” — Alice McDermott ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“I was in the deep water. It was dark and unclear and the taste of the salt was in my mouth.” — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“You are the salt of the earth. But remember that salt is useful when in association, but useless in isolation.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“Salt is like good humor, and nearly everything is better for a pinch of it.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“He embodied what he worshipped, the exquisite in the commonplace…salt for the spirit.” — Philip Levine Copy Share Image
“The man was right who said that salt water was a cure for everything...in one of three forms, tears, sweat, or the sea.” — Arthur Gordon Copy Share Image
“What was it Isak Dinesen had said about salt as a cure? Tears, sweat, or the sea. She could use a cure.” — Nina Post Copy Share Image
“[N]obody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth.” — Rebecca West 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… — Alice McDermott Copy Share Image
“If you want to see how far we have not come from the cave and the woods, from the lonely and dangerous days of… — Alice McDermott Copy Share Image
“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… — Alice McDermott Copy Share Image
What makes a sentence, a phrase, a moment, or a scene delightful? Something about recognizing the truth in it, hearing the music in it,… — Alice McDermott Copy Share Image
“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… — Alice McDermott Copy Share Image
“His love for his children bore down on his heart with the weight of three heavy stones. There were all his unnamed fears for… — Alice McDermott Copy Share Image
“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
