Somebody's going to have to make the money to buy you all those books.""They're free, " Franny said. "I check them out of the library.""Well, thank God for libraries, " Caroline said.

The entire time Albie followed Beverly around the house doing what the children referred to as “the stripper soundtra

The two sisters were connected by neither love nor mutual affinity but by a very small bathroom that could be entered from the bedroom on either side.

Oh, my love, ' she said. 'What do the only children do?''We'll never have to know.

Bad habits were all a matter of perspective, and as long as the present was viewed through the lens of the past, anyone would say he was doing a spectacular job.

Zen- Dojo Tozan was not in Sarnen or Thu but somewhere between the two, not in a village but in the tall grass and blue flowers.

She didn't know how to hate her mother yet, but every time she left her father crying in the airport she came that much closer to figuring it out.

Isn't that what everyone wants, just for a moment to be unencumbered?

You need your rest to feel your best!

Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies!

The Act of God designation on all insurance policies; which means, roughly, that you cannot be insured for the accidents that are most likely to happen to you.

What is it all but a trouble of ants in the gleam of a million million of suns?

I've met many young women who are HIV positive and courageously fighting the disease. Their determination to live a full life and see their children live in a better world is deeply inspiring to me.

The time is come when women must do something more than the "domestic hearth," which means nursing the infants, keeping a pretty house, having a good dinner and an entertaining party.

Muse, time has taught me that all metaphysical systems, even historical facts given as truths, are hardly that, so I amuse myself with more agreeable lies; I no longer read anything but novels.

You have Jesus and Jesus has you or you are barren and wasted and lost!

Something small and quiet, like a match being struck, lights up the gloom inside of me.

Remember that the writing itself is good for you. If your story is so close to home that you are afraid to write it, it probably means you need to write it.