67 quotes found
Novelist · American
American novelist
“This is one rule about mixing boys and girls: that a date always comes first.”
“If I were to draw on a paper what gym does for me, I would make one dot and then I would erase it.”
“The seasons tell us, everything in organic life tells us, that there is no holding on; still, we try to do just that. Sometimes, though, we learn the kind of wisdom that celebrates the open hand.”
“I am thinking about the way that life can be so slippery; the way that a twelve-year-old girl looking into the mirror to count freckles reaches out toward herself and that reflection has turned int...”
“This is the way things work sometimes, that good things get ideas from each other, say, well now let’s go ahead and let her have it all.”
“I would make an anonymous call and say, this is someone who cares, do you know what kind of children you have?”
“She sits down and puts her hand to her chest and rocks. Thinks of all she has lost and will lose. All she has had and will have. It seems to her that life is like gathering berries into an apron wi...”
