When moral superiority combines with billowing ignorance, they fill up a hot-air balloon that's awfully hard not to poke.

Mother could go for one year without food, but not one day without her lip sticks.

My worst nightmare is being stuck somewhere with nothing to read.

For Lou Ann, life itself was a life-threatening enterprise.

I know people. Most have no earthly notion of the price of a snow-white conscience.

In my own worst seasons I've come back from the colorless world of despair by forcing myself to look hard, for a long time, at a single glorious thing: a flame of red geranium outside my bedroom window. And then another: my daughter in a yellow dress. And another: the perfect outline of a full, dark sphere behind the crescent moon. Until I learned to be in love with my life again. Like a stroke victim retraining new parts of the brain to grasp lost skills, I have taught myself joy, over and over again(15).

The thing is, it's my own fault. I just can't put up with a person that won't go out of his way for me. And that's what a man is. Somebody that won't go out of his way for you. I bet it says that in the dictionary.