“Mom is a compulsive reader. She reads for pleasure, she reads to edify herself, but more often than not, she reads because she can't help it. I understand. The minute I find myself sitting still, I...”

“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”

“When we look up at the sky, we are trying to find the way back to ourselves”

“Only weak thinkers do not love the sky.”

“Your sky is full of stars and my arms too short to reach a piece to call my own”