67 quotes found
Novelist · American
American novelist
“Don't let your habits become handcuffs”
“There are some things you never say good-bye to”
“You don't get everything all at once. You wait.”
“It is such a terrifying thing to see a man cry.”
“I have wanted you to see out of my eyes so many times.”
“There is love in holding and there is love in letting go.”
“There are random moments - tossing a salad, coming up the driveway to the house, ironing the seams flat on a quilt square, standing at the kitchen window and looking out at the delphiniums, hearing...”
“There are moments when we think nature happens just for us, and there are other moments when the ridiculousness of that notion is revealed.”
“Just one look and then I knew that all I longed for long ago was you”
“For all it's problems and difficulties, life is mostly a wonderful experience, and it is up to each person to make the most of each day. I hope you are successful in your life, but look to the heav...”
“I will be so glad for you to hear not the sounds of gunfire but the sounds of church bells, and of people working in peace.”
“You don't do so well with marriage. I don't think you've begun to realize all there is for you to love. And I know you better than anyone & here's what I know about you: You have so much love to gi...”
“There I was, waiting, afraid Id never experience the kind of joy yet to come, but hoping for it just the same.”
“You are born into your family and your family is born into you. No returns. No exchanges.”
“And so, what of it all? What of me and my passions and personas, my great loves and failures of love, my writing, my politics? What of the clanging opinions, the endless queries as to the whys and ...”
“How are poets able to unzip what they see around them, calling forth a truer essence from behind a common fact? Why, reading a verse about a pear, do you see past the fruit in so transcendent a way?”
“When Suzie introduced Helen, she told the audience that one of the best things about books is that they are an interactive art form: that while the author may describe in some detail how a characte...”
“I just want to say one thing. If I ever write a novel again, it's going to be in defense of weak women, inept and codependent women. I'm going to talk about all the great movies and songs and poetr...”
“I also think you should take care of yourself. You can crack up a little when these things go on for so long. You've got to bring a healthy self in here. That will help him most. He needs to feel y...”
“The things that brought me the most comfort now were too small to list. Raspberries in cream. Sparrows with cocked heads. Shadows of bare limbs making for sidewalk filigrees. Roses past their prime...”
“You are always in my thoughts. When you were little, I knew your whereabouts at any given moment. Now that you are...off on your own, I still always know where you are, because I keep you in my heart.”
“I don't hold Travis anymore, of course- not to read to him, or for any other reason, either. I wish I'd known that the last time was going to be the last time.”
“I cried until my eyes swelled shut, and then I slept, a black, dreamless sleep from which I awoke amazingly refreshed, at least until I remembered.”
“I was downstairs, reading."" Now?" I strained to see her face. She was smiling, it appeared."Yes, now," she said. "It's nice, sometimes, to read in the middle of the night. The sky is so dark and s...”
