It was a remarkable realization to Eby, that we are what we're taught. That was why the Morris women were what they were. It was because they knew no different.

But relying on one person for your every need is so dangerous. One set of hands isn't enough to keep you from falling

Jack thought anyone who read couldn't be all that bad.

The books I read when I was twenty completely changed when I read them when I was sixty.

You can't change where you come from, but you can change where you go from here. Just like a book. If you don't like the ending, you can make up a new one.

You can't change where you came from, but you can change where you go from here.

You can't change where you came from, but you can change where you go from here. Just like a book. If you don't like the ending, you make up a new one.

Warm, enticing scents were floating down, basil and oregano and tomato. It made Wes long for something, something he couldn't place. A happy childhood, a home.

She knew him in that way you can only know a person as a child. Like if you cracked away the adult shell, you'd find that child, happily sitting inside, smiling at you.

Those stories were the sound track of my summer with you.

There was a sense of tightness in the room now, filling the space. Attraction was like that. It filled. It poured into you like batter into a pan, sticking to the sides.

O Lord gives me a loyal spirit.

Every civilian's death diminishes us, collectively.

If one has not given everything, one has given nothing.

The only country that hasn't liked my music is my own.

Leo Connellan has retained his soul and voice in Provincetown and Other Poems.

Could fulfillment ever be felt as deeply as loss?

To-morrow will give some food for thought.

There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.

In order to profit from this path [of prayer] and ascend to the dwelling places we desire, the important thing is not to think much but to love much; and so, do that which best stirs you to love.

Everything that I do is limitation and complete intuition. I'm a human being. I'm not a musician. I'm not an entertainer. I don't know anything!