71 quotes found
Novelist · American · 1950
American novelist (born 1950)
“A fiction writer weaves a fabric of lies in hopes of revealing deeper human truths.”
“Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.”
“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.”
“Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love.”
“When you deserved it, even the mail could rape you.”
“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...”
“Love is like breathing. You take it in and let it out.”
“All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth.”
“Maybe that's what love is. Having someone who guides you through different experiences, coaxes you to try news things but still makes you feel safe.”
“If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.”
“-- that books were mirrors, reflective in sometimes unpredictable ways.”
“Her shut-eyed smile transformed itself into something else: the smile of someone brave and knowing, someone whose pain had made her wise.”
“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 ...”
“So maybe that’s what love means. Having the capacity to forgive the one who wronged you, no matter how deep the hurt was.”
“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?”
“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.”
“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.”
