18 quotes found
“When you deserved it, even the mail could rape you.”
“Love is like breathing. You take it in and let it out.”
“Life's a shit sandwich, my ass. Life's a polka and don't you forget it!”
“Here is a girl who is pretty in a quiet way. I bet she's had a very sad life.”
“If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.”
“What if I dont like adventure?Then cultivate a taste for it. Take a chance. Thats how you grow.”
“Her shut-eyed smile transformed itself into something else: the smile of someone brave and knowing, someone whose pain had made her wise.”
“All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth.”
“People had always amazed him, he began. But they amazed him more since the sickness. For as long as the two of them had been together, he said, Garys mother had accepted him as her sons lover, had ...”
“Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of life's longing for itself.”
“That time we separated was my idea. I thought, well, I'm fifty years old and there might be someone else out there. People waste their happiness - that's what makes me sad. Everyone's so scared to ...”
“You know what 'Dolores' means? It's Latin, means sadness. Our Lady of Sorrow. Why are you so sad?”
“As my father talked, tears dripped down the side of his face like candle wax. The sight shocked me; until that moment, I had assumed men were as incapable of crying as they were of having babies.”
“Getting a job scared her but she was determined not to shy away from risk. Thats what lifes all about. Climbing out onto the airplane wing and jumping off.”
“You can be two things if you're a woman, Dolores. Betty Crocker or a floozy. Just remember your place - even if it kills you.”
“I thought about how love was always the thing that did that - smashed into you, left you raw. The deeper you loved, the deeper it hurt.”
“Jack Speight undid me, then I almost undid myself. But I've undone some of the bad, too, some of the damage. With help. With luck and love.”
“Let me tell you something, my wife died for Tuesdays ago. Cancer of the colon. We were married forty-one years. Now you stop feeling sorry for yourself and lose some of that pork of yours. Pretty g...”
