40 quotes found
Author · American · 1932
American author (born 1932)
“The very persons who have taken away my time and space are those who have given me something to say.”
“You're the proverbial diamond in the rough", she'd said to him once, touching his nose lightly with the tip of her electrifying finger.”
“If you're a kid who is always on the outside hoping to be on the inside, you're watching a lot. You're trying to figure out how to become a normal person in a society that considers you weird.”
“...the long train ride was like traveling through limbo. You weren't anywhere when you were on a train, she decided. You weren't where you had been, and you weren't yet where you were going. You we...”
“...I just gave up trying to be a Christian... Let's face it, I ain't got the knack for holiness. Besides, I didn't have the slightest little desire to join the likes of Reverend Pelham at the dinne...”
“Fear is one thing. To let fear grab you and swing you around by the tail is another.”
“Hope ... is not a feeling it is something you do.”
“The name we give to something shapes our attitude toward it.”
“I love revisions…We can’t go back and revise our lives, but being allowed to go back and revise what we have written comes closest.”
“My heart is heavy, she thought. It’s not just a saying. It is what is—heavy, a great stone lodged in my breast, pressing down my whole being. How can I even stand straight and look out upon the wor...”
“She just took off running to the old Perkins place. He couldn't help turning to watch. She ran as though it was her nature. It reminded him of the flight of wild ducks in the autumn. So smooth. The...”
“He felt there in the teachers' room that it was the beginning of a new season in his life, and he chose deliberately to make it so. He did not have to make any announcement to Leslie that he had ch...”
“When Leslie spoke, the words rolled out so regally, you knew she was a proper queen. He could hardly manage English, much less the poetic language of a king.”
“He was angry, too, because it would soon be Christmas and he had nothing to give Leslie. It was not that she would expect something expensive; it was that he needed to give her something as much as...”
“Even a prince may be a fool”
“Why don't we change our clothes and watch TV or something over at your house? He felt like hugging her. I'll make us some coffee, he said joyfully. Yuk, she said smiling and began to run for the ol...”
“Lord, it would be better to be born without an arm than to go through life with no guts.”
“If there was anything her short life had taught her, it was that a person must be tough. Otherwise, you were had.”
“Trotter its all wrong. Nothing turned out the way it was supposed to. How do you mean supposed to? Life ain't supposed to be nothing, 'cept maybe tough. [..] If life is so bad, how come you're so h...”
