Lillie woke to darkness an instant before a large warm hand clamped down over her mouth…

Ya got to watch them bears, Lillie Girl, ” her father said, looking worried, “ ‘specially the renegade ones. They’ll turn you every way but loose.

Sometimes, just saying that you hate something, and having someone agree with you, can make you feel better about a terrible situation.

Any good marriage is secret territory, a necessary white space on society’s map. What others don’t know about it is what makes it yours.

We must be able to look under the surface rather than over-analyze it and delude ourselves into thinking we’re seeing beneath it.

Our parents were a test tube and a turkey baster.

Americans are so dumb!

You see all of us go through the same doubts. We are afraid of being mad; unfortunately for us, of course, all of us are already mad.

Drought brings out the worst in us and it's easy to hate your fellow human beings.

Eternity would mean nothing without you. For no power on this earth would I trade my Elena.

I don't know, I'm not from this neighborhood."-to Jake LaMotta after a night of drinking when LaMotta asked "is that the sun or the moon?

You would rouse to anger a heart of stone.