“Americans look for heroes in the strangest of places.” — Cathie Pelletier Americans Copy Share Image
Sometimes you need to be touched to know you're still alive. — Cathie Pelletier Alive Copy Share Image
“looking off at the past as though it were a place one might still get to” — Cathie Pelletier Looking Copy Share Image
“When you don't know enough about life to know what you might have missed out on, your imagination plays wicked tricks on… — Cathie Pelletier Imagination Copy Share Image
Almost overnight, Albert Pinkham had gone from being barely able to keep his head above water to walking on the stuff. — Cathie Pelletier Able Copy Share Image
“Everything seemed to be a clue to the hereafter, now that one of her own had gone there.” — Cathie Pelletier Clue Copy Share Image
“Only Gracie knew what it was like to wake up at night and feel how cold sheets can get on the empty… — Cathie Pelletier Gracie Copy Share Image
“Who the hell ain't dysfunctional these days? When the Kennedys straighten out, then maybe the rest of us should worry.” — Cathie Pelletier Dysfunctional Copy Share Image
“It wasn't that Mattie didn't believe in God. She did, she most surely did. She just didn't like some of the things… — Cathie Pelletier Believe Copy Share Image
“This is what keeps ghosts locked to the earth, that sweet burning need for something they loved and gave up too soon.” — Cathie Pelletier Ghosts Copy Share Image
“He felt the rush of years, years wasted and years used wisely. He felt time moving through him, as if it were… — Cathie Pelletier Time Copy Share Image
If God had meant for me to be religious, he would have alphabetized the books of the Bible. It was just too… — Cathie Pelletier Bible Copy Share Image
“She knew for certain there were all kinds of people who craved their youth, who would run like gazelles toward that fishhook… — Cathie Pelletier Time Copy Share Image
“Never had anyone said, "Listen. Life is short. Pretend your body is still in its twenties. Jump for the brass ring. Swing… — Cathie Pelletier Aging Copy Share Image
“But Harry knew now that love was a soldier. It can invade the human heart. Build canopies through jungles. Scale castle walls.… — Cathie Pelletier Fair Copy Share Image
“The big television crouched in the shadowy beam of the porch light. Mattie could see its black, open face, and she felt… — Cathie Pelletier Cave Copy Share Image
“She had stood there with the phone pressed to her ear as though it were a huge plastic seashell, all the unhappy… — Cathie Pelletier Heart Copy Share Image
“the sort of kid who steered his bicycle around snakes crossing the road” — Cathie Pelletier Bicycle Copy Share Image
“The world was an awful place, too awful to live in, if people could kill a President so easily.” — Cathie Pelletier People Kill Copy Share Image
“I know how loud the seconds can sound as you stand by a window and peer out into the night.” — Cathie Pelletier Night Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, in the dark of night, when no one else could hear him but me, he'd cry out, like he was fighting… — Cathie Pelletier Dark night Copy Share Image
“Mattie felt drained, as though someone had stood her on her head and poured her entire heart and soul right out of… — Cathie Pelletier Drained Copy Share Image
“The years of her life tumbled out onto the floor like marbles that she would never be able to gather up again… — Cathie Pelletier Heart Copy Share Image
Now I'll give you some advice, since you been asking for it. Happiness is like them plants you been yapping about. Sometimes… — Cathie Pelletier Advice Copy Share Image
“He had lived as a handful of taffy between his mother and his father all his life, had been pulled in so… — Cathie Pelletier Life Copy Share Image
