71 quotes found
Novelist · American · 1950
American novelist (born 1950)
“People walk in the door because they need you to take care of them -- to feed them or fix them.”
“We are like water, arent we? We can be fluid, flexible when we have to be. But strong and destructive, too. And something else, I think to myself. Like water, we mostly follow the path of least res...”
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“Here is a girl who is pretty in a quiet way. I bet she's had a very sad life.”
“You know what 'Dolores' means? It's Latin, means sadness. Our Lady of Sorrow. Why are you so sad?”
“Change what you can, accept what you cant, and be smart enough to know the difference”
“I didn't respond to him. Couldn't speak at all. Couldn't look at his self-mutilation--not even the clean, bandaged version of it. Instead, I looked at my own rough, stained house painter's hand. Th...”
“Too bad I didn't know you back then, I would have come and rescued you." Like he was Prince Charming or something. Which he is, in a way, because he rescued me from the simple, uncomplicated life I...”
“A life I didn't choose chose me.”
“Change what you can, accept what you can't, and be smart enough to know the difference.”
“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.”
“The seeker embarks on a journey to find what he wants and discovers, along the way, what he needs.”
“That melting pot stuff was always more about what this country wanted to believe about itself than the way people really felt.”
“What if I dont like adventure?Then cultivate a taste for it. Take a chance. Thats how you grow.”
“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.”
“Life's a shit sandwich, my ass. Life's a polka and don't you forget it!”
“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.”
“Sometimes the closer we got to a situation, the less clear it looked.”
“But what are our stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears?”
