But we cannot unbraid the story of another person’s life and take out all the parts that don’t suit our purposes and put forth only the ones that do.

If you're trying to find out what's coming next, turn off everything you own that has an OFF switch and listen.

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.

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

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.

People gave me such a bad time about wanting a baby. I didn't want a baby, and I still don't. I wanted a dog.

For a man to know what he has when he had it, that is what makes him a fortunate man.