71 quotes found
Novelist · American · 1950
American novelist (born 1950)
“Change what you can, accept what you can't, and be smart enough to know the difference.”
“What if I don’t like adventure?Then cultivate a taste for it. Take a chance. That’s how you grow.”
“We are like water, aren’t 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 r...”
“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.”
“Change what you can, accept what you can’t, and be smart enough to know the difference”
“Getting a job scared her but she was determined not to shy away from risk. That’s what life’s 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!”
“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.”
“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...”
