126 quotes found
Author · American · 1963
American author (born 1963)
“Maybe everyone does have a novel in them, perhaps even a great one. I don't believe it, but for the purposes of this argument, let's say it's so. Only a few of us are going to be willing to break o...”
“Part of what I love about novels and dogs is that they are so beautifully oblivious to economic concerns. We serve them, and in return they thrive. It's not their responsibility to figure out where...”
“She didn't know how to hate her mother yet, but every time she left her father crying in the airport she came that much closer to figuring it out.”
“I wanted two girls," she said. "You and your sister. I wanted exactly what I had. Other people's children are too hard”
“...the terrible crumple and blanch of a lie come undone...”
“The kind of love that offers its life so easily, so stupidly is always the love that is not returned.”
“He was so close to her then that they owned every molecule of air in the tiny room and the air grew heavy with their desire and worked to move them together.”
“Is it possible that anxiety ends at the moment when we no longer have time for it?”
“There was no time for kissing but she wanted him to know that in the future there would be. A kiss in so much loneliness was like a hand pulling you up out of the water, scooping you up from a plac...”
“Questions are for the benefit of every student, not just the one raising his hand. If you don't have the starch to stand up in class and admit what you don't understand, then I don't have the time ...”
“Sleep was a country for which he could not obtain a visa.”
“The sleep he went back to was never the one he left.”
“Gen was sleeping the sleep of the heavily drugged.”
“Who makes things up? Who tells the real story? We all turn our lives into stories. It is a defining characteristic of our species. We retell our experiences. We quickly learn what parts are interes...”
“Isn't that what everyone wants, just for a moment to be unencumbered?”
“I think that she is everything I have ever loved about our religion distilled down to fit into one person, everything about the faith that is both selfless and responsible.”
“She's growing up," Sister Evangeline said.And I wanted to tell her no, I'm not. Everything is exactly the same.”
“We shared ideas like sweaters, with easy exchange and lack of ownership.”
“Writing is a miserable, awful business. Stay with it. It is better than anything in the world”
“Maybe that was the definition of life everlasting: the belief that the next generation would carry your work forward.”
