“When she was a child, she discovered the solitude in running. It allowed her young mind to become as still as a morning pond, clearing it from all the doom and gloom she was always watching and preparing for.”
― Where the Grass Grows Blue
― Where the Grass Grows Blue
“his odd ability to fall feetfirst into the little pocket of someone else’s world for those few seconds.”
― The Burgess Boys
― The Burgess Boys
“The library, Janet used to say, is one of only a few places in the world that one doesn’t need to believe anything or buy anything to come inside … and it is the librarian’s job to look after all those who do.”
― The Good Sister
― The Good Sister
“beginnings are like seeds that contain within them everything that will ever happen.”
― Hourglass: Time, Memory, Marriage
― Hourglass: Time, Memory, Marriage
“can’t part with the framed diplomas of my parents and their siblings. They were the first generation in my family to go to college. How does that get tossed in a Dumpster? My uncle’s pipe, my aunt’s forty-year-old golf clubs, ceramic figurines from my grandmother’s apartment in her assisted-living facility mingle as if at”
― Hourglass: Time, Memory, Marriage
― Hourglass: Time, Memory, Marriage
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