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A dog can't think that much about what he's doing, he just does what feels right.
We came from Bethlehem, Georgia bearing Betty Crocker cake mixes into the jungle.
In a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is make things as right as we can.
If the Lord hasn't got a boyfriend lined up for me to marry, that's his business.
Mother could go for one year without food, but not one day without her lip sticks.
The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes.
Parenting is something that happens mostly while you're thinking of something else.
I know people. Most have no earthly notion of the price of a snow-white conscience.
Pure and unblemished souls must taste very bland, with an aftertaste of bitterness.
Be careful what you give children, for sooner or later you are sure to get it back.
Perhaps growing up meant we put our knives away and feigned ignorance of the damage.
she's never forgotten, either, how a mystery caught in the hand could lose its grace
When you're given a brilliant child you polish her and let her shine. Pigs in Heaven
Most of my books have been about the complex ways an individual depends on community.
God, why does a mortal man have children? It is senseless to love anything this much.
A certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture.
...nothing momentous comes in this world unless it comes on the shoulders of kindness.
Once the rains abated, my father's garden thrived in the heat like an unleashed temper.
Vengeance does not subtract any numbers from the equation of murder; it only adds them.
It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.
Thanks for this day, for all birds safe in their nests, for whatever this is, for life.
God doesn’t need to punish us. He just grants us a long enough life to punish ourselves.
Given my own circumstances, I find that anything can turn out to belong nearly anywhere.
Our house is like an empty cigarette packet, lying around reminding you what's not in it.
I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves.
Silence has many advantages…I write and draw in my notebook and I read anything I please.
Prayer had always struck me as more or less a glorified attempt at a business transaction.
As a biologist, I can't think of myself as anything but an animal among animals and plant.
Alice wonders if other women in the middle of the night have begun to resent their Formica.
Some of us know how we came by our fortune and some of us don't; but we wear it all the same
It's frightening when things you love appear suddenly changed from what you have always known.
Sadness is more or less like a head cold - with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.
It is completely usual for me to get up in the morning, take a look around, and laugh out loud.
Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life.
The most assiduous task of parenting is to divine the difference between boundaries and bondage.
you can't really know the person standing before you, because always there is some missing piece
Does a man become a revolutionary out of the belief he's entitled to joy rather than submission?
If we can't, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread.
High fashion has the shelf life of potato salad. And when past its prime, it is similarly deadly.
Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization.
You see mother, you had no life of your own. They have no idea. One has only a life of one's own.
Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say.
Now I'm starting to think he wasn't supposed to be my whole life, he was just this doorway to me.
Your own family resemblances are a frustrating code, most easily read by those who know you least.
Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
Like kids who only ever get socks for Christmas, but still believe with all their hearts in Santa.
The march of human progress seemed mainly a matter of getting over that initial shock of being here.
Why is it that only girls stand on the sides of their feet? As if they're afraid to plant themselves?
I never think that anything I'm writing is bluntly political in any way. I'm not going for commentary.
I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence.