Amy Waldman Quotes

[s]he was a compulsive pessimist, always looking for the soft brown spot in the fruit, pressing so hard she created it.

In life, redemption was walking up the down escalator: stop to congratulate yourself, and back you slid.

Religious speech is extreme, emotional, and motivational. It is anti-literal, relying on metaphor, allusion, and other rhetorical devices, and it assumes knowledge within a community of believers.

Jealousy clings to love's underside like bats to a bridge.

Sorrow can be a bully.

Perhaps this was the secret to being at peace: want nothing but what is given to you.

My parents are aging and there are difficult issues. It's strange to have children at the beginning of life and parents nearing the end.

My children, who are almost two: watching them develop has made me pay much closer attention to how we become who we are.

I'm kind of a mash-up of taste - Graham Greene and Jane Austen; W.G. Sebald and Alice Munro.

I wasn't sitting around years ago thinking I really want to write a novel.

In America time was gold; in Bangladesh, corrugated tin.

Eden, paradise - all the best gardens are imaginary.

The rhetoric is the first step, it coarsens attitudes

Fabricating reality was criminal; editing it, commonplace.

Nothing in life gets dropped without someone else having to pick it up.

There were in life rarely, if ever, "right" decisions, never perfect ones, only the best to be made under the circumstances.

The September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon prompted a fundamental shift in the American government's approach to Islamic terrorism.

Tears filled Claire’s eyes but, as if they knew their place, didn’t leave.