“We talk about how he and Leanne are doing knowing full well there is no sufficient answer.p 294”

“The tough times start," he said, "the day the last casserole dish is returned.”

“It is the blessing of dumb work done close to the earth-one gritty minute at a time, we move forward.”

“I stand beside Tom's barn and ponder the benign heedlessness of the people in the speeding cars, and here I am in the speeding car. In my heart I wish the bypass had never been built; in my car I n...”

“Imagine the wizened quality of a life blanched of contradiction and double standard.p 44”

“[Fire] is lightfooted and shamanic, dancing between the visible and invisible, undoing matter one collapsed molecule at a time, wreaking utter destruction with a touch softer than breath. Its poor ...”

“Just because it's fiction doesn't mean it's any less true.”

“Oh, Sweetie. No one ever gets through their TBR list. For every book you finish, you'll add five more. That's just the way it works.”

“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”