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.

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

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.

Like most good looking women, she was never sure of her beauty, and had to keep checking on it, to make sure it was still there.

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