“It dawned on him that the loneliness of marriage, the thing Alice had so feared, starts out of love itself, which can… — Josephine Humphreys Loneliness Copy Share Image
“She knew what she looked like - someone at the edge of catastrophe, someone already flinching from a blow that had not… — Josephine Humphreys Copy Share Image
When people say they are happy for you it may mean they are sad for themselves. — Josephine Humphreys Happiness Copy Share Image
You know a relationship has deteriorated past the point of salvage when one person detests another's gestures. — Josephine Humphreys Gestures Copy Share Image
“I'm not sure whether or not any love matches are made in heaven, but some do suggest heaven had a hand in… — Josephine Humphreys Heaven Copy Share Image
“Her body was heavy and tired, and she thought, I can't carry myself another step into this life.” — Josephine Humphreys Heavy Copy Share Image
“The shape of his head, the set of his shoulders are a pattern she could recognize and love out of a crowd… — Josephine Humphreys Copy Share Image
I read Butterfly’s Child in one day, totally hooked. It is a captivating novel of love, guilt, sin, justice—and how all these… — Josephine Humphreys Books Copy Share Image
Bobbie Ann Mason's genius only grows stronger and wiser and funnier with every new book, and Zigzagging Down a Wild Trail is… — Josephine Humphreys Absolutes Copy Share Image
You can't drown yourself that simply. All good suicides involve speed and irreversibility, because the body will always move to protect itself… — Josephine Humphreys Body Copy Share Image
“But Iris walks through the project every day. Alice asked, "Isn't it dangerous?" Iris said, "I don't know. I guess it could… — Josephine Humphreys Every day Copy Share Image
“They sounded frantic; he imagined them driven into the night by a force stronger than hunger or love, flying blind, scared stiff… — Josephine Humphreys Love Copy Share Image
You must be the greatest mother in the world, but you must also, simultaneously, withdraw from your children's lives. You don't want… — Josephine Humphreys Children Copy Share Image
“Growing up in an old city, you learn history's one true lesson: that history fades. Nothing sticks together for very long without… — Josephine Humphreys Effort Copy Share Image
“If she were their mother she'd teach them these things are nothing, the clothes and toys and furniture. These things fool people… — Josephine Humphreys Choose love Copy Share Image
How I Shed My Skin is, simply put, a brilliant book. While I was reading, I kept thinking two things. One, this… — Josephine Humphreys Book Copy Share Image
“He longed for a heart like the one his friend was getting, an unstoppable pump that would not falter. Danny might appear… — Josephine Humphreys Friendship Copy Share Image
“He's always had a nameless, unanchored longing; and when, at critical points in his life, a period of intense longing coincided with… — Josephine Humphreys Desire Copy Share Image
“Marry me,' he said. [...] 'No,' she said. 'It scares me.' [...] 'What aspect of it scares you?' 'The loneliness.” — Josephine Humphreys Loneliness Copy Share Image
“Revenge! The stupidest motive on earth, just an attempt to change history.” — Josephine Humphreys History Copy Share Image
But the moods could be contagious. He didn't need one right now. — Josephine Humphreys Contagious Copy Share Image
People Should not be protected from the world.. -It cripples them. — Josephine Humphreys Cripples Copy Share Image
“That was one helpful thing he said to her, the first thing that caught her attention. "Start your life." Because she had… — Josephine Humphreys Life Copy Share Image
“It isn't that nothing is left. It is that what remains is such an old sad ghost of the thing that used… — Josephine Humphreys Remains Copy Share Image
Like most good looking women, she was never sure of her beauty, and had to keep checking on it, to make sure… — Josephine Humphreys Beauty Copy Share Image
“Why do philosophers in the South so often end as newspapermen, poets as doctors? Maybe they crave what's found in pain and… — Josephine Humphreys Pain and loss Copy Share Image
“He was in a state of wonder most of the time, the way a young boy is--engaged by the most ordinary things… — Josephine Humphreys Miracles Copy Share Image
“Oh, the world appears to work smoothly enough, like a toy town where the only business is the constant shifting of goods… — Josephine Humphreys Toys Copy Share Image
“I wanted him to be a poet. I wanted him to adventure out into the world and learn its ways, not losing… — Josephine Humphreys Life Copy Share Image
“Still, he's Emory. He doesn't have to walk her home, especially considering how snitty she was to him. He didn't have to… — Josephine Humphreys Love Copy Share Image
“She used to be a mathematician. Now she looks for omens and signs. At one time she thought math would clarify the… — Josephine Humphreys Knowledge Copy Share Image
People do sometimes change, of course. Habits, allegiances, dreams are all alterable, but only under extraordinary pressure - like great love, fear,… — Josephine Humphreys Allegiance Copy Share Image
“Well, I mean I have forgotten how to go anywhere alone. There are things you have to do. Like throw money into… — Josephine Humphreys Hard to believe Copy Share Image
“Nineteen and living a life not his own, he was sure enough of his worth to put his name to his work… — Josephine Humphreys Life Copy Share Image
“Her own dolls were either babies or storybook characters like Cinderella and Snow White who though past childhood were somehow not yet… — Josephine Humphreys Childhood Copy Share Image
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