207 quotes found
“God doesn't want your careful virtue, He wants your reckless generosity.”
“I like it here. I like the girls, and I like the DJ's, and the cocktail waitresses, and the loud rock'n'roll (though I would happily beat everyone in Poison to death with the severed limbs of the m...”
“Had I glimpsed just a little of the suffering I would witness and the heartbreak I would endure, I would have fled in the other direction...But I could not foresee any of these things...And many ye...”
“I am a product of two worlds and each world has given me a reason to love, be kind and grow strong.”
“A day came when I should have died, and after that nothing seemed very important. So I have stayed as I am, without regret, separated from the normal human condition.”
“I think each family has a funhouse logic all its own, and in that distortion,in that delusion, all behavior can seem both perfectly normal and crazy.”
“...We never set eyes on Fatima or our dog or the city we had known ever again. Like a body prematurely buried, unmourned withpot coffin or ceremony, our hasty untidy exit from Jerusalem was no way ...”
“Who have you helped today"?”
“There is a cost to loving anything, or anyone. No one tells you that when you are young.”
“One last characteristic of the memoir that is important to recognize is one which also applies to essays, and which Georg Lukacs described as "the process of judging." This may seem problematic to ...”
“...my sisters are tough. Our strength is in our laughter (Dan)”
“I've had cancer twice and if I had to pick one fate for you, cancer or fertility problems-I'd pick cancer.”
“Betrayal is sacred when the heart can encompass the whole.”
“My mother taught me that an important word in any language is while. while one thing is happening so is another. While someone is in darkness another is in daylight.While person dies another is born.”
“The writer's business is to find the shape in unruly life and to serve her story.”
“As the lights fade to a distant glow, I look back toward the city and imagine, somewhere in all of those lives, a little girl who is a lot like me. Maybe she rides in a car thinking about someone l...”
“In 2005, my mad half, HER was born... ME & HER: a Memoir of Madness, 2012.”
“Now, through an act as simple as walking across a stage and collecting an empty plastic folder representing a degree, our stock had plummeted to nothing, the wretched leavings of some cosmic Ponzi ...”
“Ignore the misery. Custom invites you to ignore the misery."SHOW YOUR TONGUE”
“This is a work of memory -- facts have been altered. Names have been changed.”
