11 quotes found
“Beauty is the worst kind of lie.”
“His client needs him, he says. Needs him? But isnt he needed at home?”
“His client needs him, he says. Needs him? But isn’t he needed at home?”
“Forgiveness, which is the place that every story turns, the chance we give each other.”
“Nature is not the number-one mystery, Ive learned. Its the heart that takes top honors.”
“Nature is not the number-one mystery, I’ve learned. It’s the heart that takes top honors.”
“The night before, I'd gone overboard with my Lila poems, and maybe it's true that I was hoping that in them he'd see the genius of me, the beauty of my words in his hands.”
“Fox-TrotBy the stream the fox and she-fox stoodNose to nose beneath the starsDancing the music of the woods.The deer rapped a beat with their hooves,The ravens sang from raven heartsAs by the strea...”
“When I was a boy, that was all I wantedto grow a pair of wings and get up into the sky. I had a basement full of failed wing projects. Boards and capes and motors, even a pile of found feathers I o...”
“Have you ever watched a leaf leave a tree? It falls upward first, and then it drifts toward the ground, just as I find myself drifting towards you.”
“When I was a boy, that was all I wanted—to grow a pair of wings and get up into the sky. I had a basement full of failed wing projects. Boards and capes and motors, even a pile of found feathers I ...”
