When people say they are happy for you it may mean they are sad for themselves.

When people say they are happy for you it may mean they are sad for themselves.

But the moods could be contagious. He didn't need one right now.

You know a relationship has deteriorated past the point of salvage when one person detests another's gestures.

I read Butterfly’s Child in one day, totally hooked. It is a captivating novel of love, guilt, sin, justice—and how all these things are, in time, transformed surprisingly and inevitably.

Bobbie Ann Mason's genius only grows stronger and wiser and funnier with every new book, and Zigzagging Down a Wild Trail is my absolute favorite so far. What an ear she has for the telling phrase, what an eye for the heartbreaking detail. These new stories are stunning.

People Should not be protected from the world.. -It cripples them.