Life truths Quote by Jean Thompson

“Head full of beer, fists jammed into his empty pockets, halos of blur around the parking lot lights, yup, one more wasted evening, and…

— Jean Thompson

“Maybe getting to know a child wasn't entirely unlike meditation. You kept going at it from all different angles, and once in a while…

— Jean Thompson

“The danger of sending your children to college was that they would be contaminated by subversive forces, bad influences and bawdy women." Rolled with…

— Jean Thompson

“Nobody knows what to do when there’s a tragedy. Nobody practices for it.”

— Jean Thompson

“She'd permed her hair to within an inch of its life. When she moved her head, the mass of hair followed along behind her…

— Jean Thompson

“Did poverty in itself lead to moral failings, such as crime? Was "goodness" something that could be objectified and measured? Did society benefit directly…

— Jean Thompson

“What a lopsided stumpy mess people made of a family tree these days. The last thing any of them needed was some new little…

— Jean Thompson

“You wanted to believe that getting older, growing up, would change everything, transform you into the amazing person you were meant to be. But…

— Jean Thompson

“His heart cracked open and flooded all the space around it.”

— Jean Thompson

“He was beginning to see how having a teenager might be the equivalent of having a bad class in permanent session.”

— Jean Thompson

“She had a heart like a Twinkie, full of oversweet goo, yes, a real junk-food heart.”

— Jean Thompson

“We were afraid of so many things: Of our children, who lived in their own world of casually lurid pleasures, zombies and cartoon killers…

— Jean Thompson