“Happiness is a risk. If you’re not a little scared, then you’re not doing it right.”
― The Peach Keeper
― The Peach Keeper
“She didn't want to be one of those old ladies obsessed with death, hearing it in every tick of the clock and creak of the floorboards, as if it were prowling around the house like a burglar”
― Emily, Alone
― Emily, Alone
“A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.”
― The Twits
― The Twits
“Even the Thanksgiving when her parents had just divorced, Hoosier Pie made the cut. ...They also, incidentally, made a pumpkin pie, but it fell on the floor, a classic example of survival of the fittest”
― A Homemade Life: Stories and Recipes from My Kitchen Table
― A Homemade Life: Stories and Recipes from My Kitchen Table
“He will remember his first sight of the open sea: a gray wrinkled vastness, like the residue of a dream.”
― Wolf Hall
― Wolf Hall
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