Brian

“Summers with Rene began with a cigarette in one side of her mouth and a squinting of her eyes as she thought . . . . Shortly, she would make her pronouncement and it would seem magical no matter how often the words were said. "It's a beach day," blessed the day. The rest was understood. No more needed to be said. I knew that she knew. She had the gift to read what would come from the skies as surely as my mother could see births and betrayals in the cards.”
― Georgia Scott, American Girl: Memories That Made Me

“There are so goddamn many ways to be a fool a man can’t expect to avoid them all.”
― Ivan Doig, Dancing at the Rascal Fair

“I once tried drowning my sorrows, till I found out they could swim.”
― Peter De Vries, The Vale of Laughter

“What you lose as you age is witnesses, the ones that watched from early on and cared, like your own little grandstand.”
― John Updike, Rabbit Is Rich