“Head full of beer, fists jammed into his empty pockets, halos of blur around the parking lot lights, yup, one more wasted… — Jean Thompson Copy Share Image
“Maybe getting to know a child wasn't entirely unlike meditation. You kept going at it from all different angles, and once in… — Jean Thompson Children Copy Share Image
“After all, your head only had so much room in it. No surprise if it overflowed once in a while with little… — Jean Thompson Life truths Copy Share Image
“The danger of sending your children to college was that they would be contaminated by subversive forces, bad influences and bawdy women."… — Jean Thompson Children Copy Share Image
“Nobody knows what to do when there’s a tragedy. Nobody practices for it.” — Jean Thompson Nobody knows Copy Share Image
“She'd permed her hair to within an inch of its life. When she moved her head, the mass of hair followed along… — Jean Thompson 1980s Copy Share Image
“Did poverty in itself lead to moral failings, such as crime? Was "goodness" something that could be objectified and measured? Did society… — Jean Thompson Failure Copy Share Image
“What a lopsided stumpy mess people made of a family tree these days. The last thing any of them needed was some… — Jean Thompson Family Copy Share Image
“You wanted to believe that getting older, growing up, would change everything, transform you into the amazing person you were meant to… — Jean Thompson Amazing person Copy Share Image
“His heart cracked open and flooded all the space around it.” — Jean Thompson Contemporary fiction Copy Share Image
“He was beginning to see how having a teenager might be the equivalent of having a bad class in permanent session.” — Jean Thompson Youth Copy Share Image
“She had a heart like a Twinkie, full of oversweet goo, yes, a real junk-food heart.” — Jean Thompson Copy Share Image
“We were afraid of so many things: Of our children, who lived in their own world of casually lurid pleasures, zombies and… — Jean Thompson Buying gold Copy Share Image
“Somehow, television made behavior that you would go out of your way to avoid in real life into something fascinating.” — Jean Thompson Habits Copy Share Image
“Conner thought he understood how pride could back up in somebody, get turned around and come out as meanness. But that didn’t… — Jean Thompson Pride Copy Share Image
“She didn’t look like Louise. She didn’t look much like anybody except herself.” — Jean Thompson Copy Share Image
“The problem with women was that they were always planning some future that involved you and that you were not aware of,… — Jean Thompson Credit card Copy Share Image
“It was still very wet under the trees. A careless tug at a branch might flip cold rainbow-edged drops down your back.… — Jean Thompson Trees Copy Share Image
“He was trying to decide if she was pretty. If you had to think about it, he guessed the answer was no.” — Jean Thompson Copy Share Image
