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.

You can't drown yourself that simply. All good suicides involve speed and irreversibility, because the body will always move to protect itself against the sicko mind trying to do it in.

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.

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

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.

sharing is the secret of civilization.