Helen Van Slyke Quotes
If arrogance is the heady wine of youth, then humility must be its eternal hangover.
Mail from home was so important when you were traveling. It kept you in touch with the familiar, even the part you were running from.
Eighty's a landmark and people treat you differently than they do when you're seventy-nine. At seventy-nine, if you drop something it just lies there. At eighty, people pick it up for you.
Emotion seemed more valid than experience, for I had so much of the former and so little of the latter.
Vanity, wounded pride, rejection, self-delusion. I could recite a litany of little pinpricks that finally produce a gaping wound. That's how marriages and friendships come apart.
People who let the weak or greedy drink their blood sometimes have a need to play God.
It's especially fitting that they call a cruise ship 'she,' for she is pregnant with a thousand adult embryos who long to stay forever warm and sheltered in this great white womb.
