“The truck looked like a beater, maybe built in the 1950's, mostly rust on the outside, but a spaceship on the inside.”
― Down in the Valley
― Down in the Valley
“Look, don't just stare at the pages," I used to tell my students. "Become the characters. Live inside the book.”
― The Hour I First Believed
― The Hour I First Believed
“Living as we do in an age of noise and bluster, success is now measured accordingly. We must all be seen, and heard, and on the air.”
― The "Rebecca" Notebook: And Other Memories
― The "Rebecca" Notebook: And Other Memories
“Remember, your mission is to love, expecting nothing in return.”
― Saint Richard Parker
― Saint Richard Parker
“Silently she stared at the splintered pieces and felt the flame in her soul gutter. The flame she had nurtured since she was a child. The flame that had in it what little sparks of happiness she had ever known as well as all her hopes and dreams for the future. She had tended it so carefully and for so long, and in one, horrendous, agonizing second, felt it simply... go out.”
― Victor's Blessing
― Victor's Blessing
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