Family Quote by Ann Patchett

“Answers seemed to float through the space around him. It was about love. It was about getting handed at conception a gift that sets…

— Anthony Doerr

“Was this what it was like to be human? Were people actually so miserable and brainless that they looked forward to this—to spending Friday…

— Jeff Lindsay

“It was babies I loved looking at, the little Lords, sensuous delights of pudgy flesh and fluids. For at least three years I was…

— Siri Hustvedt

“The news came early to the beggars in front of the church, and it made them giggle a little with pleasure, for they knew…

— John Steinbeck

“A weird sort of contentment in those days. No appointments, no invitations for dinner, no program, no dough. The golden period, when I had…

— Henry Miller

“Nothing was like knowing you were the appetizer for a feast of orgy, that you were what whetted the guests and enticed them to…

— Fierce Dolan

“I was just beginning to wrap my mind around the way daily life unfolded here: wake up early, get your work done, eat, relax,…

— Ree Drummond

“It made him feel a little uncomfortable sometimes when he reflected that the good little boys always died. He loved to live, you know,…

— Mark Twain

“General Ivolgin, like all drunkards, was very emotional, and, like all drunkards who have sunk very low, he was much upset by memories of…

— Anonymous

“We wouldn’t know sweet if it weren’t for sour,” Grandma Pearl had once told me. “Wouldn’t know the answers without any questions, nor God’s…

— Leisha Kelly

“... the Great Depression had descended on the American economy and there were no jobs available. [He] not only couldn't find a position as…

— Dr. James Dobson

“Observing others go through them, he used to admire midlife crises, the courage and shamelessness and existential daring of them, but after he'd watched…

— Lorrie Moore