It's always better to have too much to read than not enough.

It was too much work to remember things you might not have again, and so one by one they opened up their hands and let them go.

I will write my way into another life.

You can’t pick up and leave everything behind because there is too much sadness in the world and not enough places to go.

From my table inside I watch the glamorous women outside who are lunching on Spa Cobb salads without blue cheese or dressing. The man with the bread basket wanders from table to table, lonesome as a cloud. When he comes to me his basket is full and perfectly arranged. He gives me a smile of sincere pleasure when I tell him I will take both the sourdough roll and the cheese stick.

Carmen prayed hard. She prayed while standing near the priest in hopes it would give her request extra credibility. What she prayed for was nothing. She prayed that God would look on them and see the beauty of their existence and leave them alone.

When you get divorced and remarried, nobody gets discarded. Everybody is still there. Even if their storyline is not directly yours.