The shreiking fight or the out-of-character insult endures forever, while the daily sweetness dissolves like sugar in water.
Mary KarrIn my godless household, poems were the closest we came to sacred speech -- the only prayers said.
Mary KarrI'm bred for farm work, and for such folk, the only A's you get come from effort. Strife and strain are all the world can offer, and they temper you into something unbreakable because Lord knows they'll try -- without let up -- to break you.
Mary Karr