“...as I get older, I find myself insisting on my right to be philosophically sloppy.” — Helen Simonson Insisting Copy Share Image
“do you really know what it means to be in love with an unsuitable woman?" "Is there any other kind?” — Helen Simonson Love Copy Share Image
“Such an awful fragility of love he thought that plans are made and broken and remade in these gaps between rational behavior.” — Helen Simonson Fragility Copy Share Image
“Sometimes you can't fix everything," said Amina. "Life isn't always like books." "No, it's not.” — Helen Simonson Book Copy Share Image
“It's so much easier to tell other people how to do their job than fix one's own shortcoming, isn't it?” — Helen Simonson Easier Copy Share Image
“But I must ask you, do you really understand what it means to be in love with an unsuitable woman?” “My dear… — Helen Simonson Love Copy Share Image
I tell myself it does not matter what one reads-favorite authors, particular themes-as long as we read something. It is not even… — Helen Simonson Book Copy Share Image
“You must know that I am entirely yours to command." "I see chivalry lives on," she said. "As long as there's no… — Helen Simonson Copy Share Image
“I miss being a student," said Abdul Wahid. "I miss the passionate discussions with my friends, and most of all the hours… — Helen Simonson Books Copy Share Image
“He cursed himself for having assumed the weather would be sunny. Perhaps it was the result of evolution, he thought--some adaptive gene… — Helen Simonson Englishmen Copy Share Image
“he realized he had inspired a sense of trust and indebtedness that would make it entirely impossible for an honorable man to… — Helen Simonson Cursed Copy Share Image
“Look here, it's all very tidy and convenient to see the world in black and white…It's a particular passion of young men… — Helen Simonson Black and white Copy Share Image
“He had forgotten that grief does not decline in a straight line or along a slow curve like a graph in a… — Helen Simonson Children Copy Share Image
“It’s called the real world. If we refused to do business with the morally questionable, the deal volume would drop in half… — Helen Simonson Business Copy Share Image
“If the war could be won by the wearing of red, white, and blue ribbons on one’s hat,” said Beatrice, sitting down… — Helen Simonson War Copy Share Image
“He had always assumed gossip to be the malicious whispering of uncomfortable truths not the fabrication of absurdities. How was one to… — Helen Simonson Gossip Copy Share Image
“Ah yes, the dreaded one-way system. . . He and Nancy had laughed later, imagining Dante redesigning Purgatory into a one-way system… — Helen Simonson Pearly gates Copy Share Image
“I know some people today would regard such love of country as ridiculously romantic and naïve... Patriotism itself has been hijacked by… — Helen Simonson Life Copy Share Image
“I have produced no children of my own and my husband is dead," she replied, an acid tone in her voice. "Thus… — Helen Simonson Children Copy Share Image
“It took him a moment to realize that they had been painted to look like fingernails, and he sighed over the extraordinary… — Helen Simonson Fingernails Copy Share Image
“I am not loitering" said the Major. "I am simply indulging in a few moments of pastoral solitude"...” — Helen Simonson Indulging Copy Share Image
“But of course we do not like to listen to our mothers,” said Mrs. Ali, smiling. “At least, not until long after… — Helen Simonson Mother Copy Share Image
But it's not enough to be in love. It's about how you spend your days, what you do together, who you choose… — Helen Simonson Break Copy Share Image
“It was frustratingly common that children were no sooner gone from the nest and established in their own homes, in Roger’s case… — Helen Simonson Children Copy Share Image
“I believe there is a great deal too much mutual confession going on today, as if sharing one’s problems somehow makes them… — Helen Simonson Humor Copy Share Image
“It would be a primal offering of food from man to woman and a satisfyingly primitive declaration of intent. However, he mused,… — Helen Simonson Courtship Copy Share Image
“So he dreams himself the life he cannot have?” “Exactly. But we, who can do anything, we refuse to live our dreams… — Helen Simonson Dreams Copy Share Image
“The world is full of small ignorances,” said a quiet voice. Mrs. Ali appeared at his elbow and gave the young woman… — Helen Simonson Ignorance Copy Share Image
“I don't believe the greatest views in the world are great because they are vast or exotic,' she said. 'I think their… — Helen Simonson Thousand years Copy Share Image
“Oh, it's simple pragmatism, Dad. It's called the real world. If we refused to do business with the morally questionable, the deal… — Helen Simonson Good guy Copy Share Image
“It was an old story so rubbed with retelling that the edges were blurry.” — Helen Simonson Blurry Copy Share Image
The world is full of small ignorances. We must all do our best to ignore them and thereby keep them small, don't… — Helen Simonson Ignorance Copy Share Image
We are all small-minded people, creeping about the earth grubbing for our own advantage and making the very mistakes for which we… — Helen Simonson Advantage Copy Share Image
“He liked the clover, evidence of the country always pressing in close, quietly sabotaging anyone who tried to manicure nature into suburban… — Helen Simonson Clover Copy Share Image
“There is only the passionate spark. Without it, two people living together may be lonelier than if they lived quite alone.” — Helen Simonson Living together Copy Share Image
“The age of great men, when a single mind of intelligence and vision might change the destiny of the world, was long… — Helen Simonson Dreams Copy Share Image
“He opened the gun box, lifted out the sections of his own gun, for comparison. They slid together with well-oiled clicks. Laying… — Helen Simonson Pistol Copy Share Image
