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- When the scope of the problem seems insuperable, isn't it time to call this one, give it up, and get on with life as we…
- What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive. You keep…
- When I look out the window, I exhale a prayer of thanks for the color green, for my children's safety, for the simple acts of…
- With all due respect for the wondrous ways people have invented to amuse themselves and one another on paved surfaces, I find that this exodus…
- I have seen women looking at jewelry ads with a misty eye and one hand resting on the heart, and I only know what they're…
- In the places that call me out, I know I'll recover my wordless childhood trust in the largeness of life and its willingness to take…
- What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive.
- I'm not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I'm doing.
- Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.
- I know I'm a rare person, a trained scientist who writes fiction, because so few contemporary novelists engage with science.
- Every time I step onto an airplane, I turn to the right and take a good, hard stare into the maw of the engine. I…
- Listen. To live is to be marked. To live is to change, to acquire the words of a story, and that is the only celebration…
- I know how people are, with their habits of mind. Most will sail through from cradle to grave with a conscience clean as snow...I know…
- Households that have lost the soul of cooking from their routines may not know what they are missing: the song of a stir-fry sizzle, the…
- There is a strange moment in time, after something horrible happens, when you know it's true, but you haven't told anyone yet.
- A miscarriage is a natural and common event. All told, probably more women have lost a child from this world than haven't. Most don't mention…
- Literature duplicates the experience of living in a way that nothing else can, drawing you so fully into another life that you temporarily forget you…
- But nothing on this earth is guaranteed, when you get right down to it, you know ? I've been thinking about that. About how your…
- You know what the issue is? Do you want to know? It's what these guys have decided to call America. They have the audacity to…
- You know reviewers, they are the wind in their own sails.
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