"She was always saying things like that but I let her be my best friend anyway."
- Ellen Gilchrist
"We live at the level of our language."
"It was spring when it happened and the schoolroom windows were open all day long, and every afternoon after Billy left we had milk from little waxy cartons and Mrs. Jansma would read us chapters from ..."
"That's great," Katie said. "Actually, it's revolutionary. If you can work and be in love at the same time, you're the first woman I ever knew that could. Maybe you're the missing link, Amanda."Maybe y..."
"Young women are closer to the time when they were manipulative and childish and they don't let their babies manipulate them as much as older mothers do. These are only my conclusions from watching chi..."
"Cuddle up. Rain always stops. It always stops. It always does. -The Brown Cape"
"We were running all over the front lawn and under the rainspouts, barefooted, in our underpants, with the rain pelting down, straight cold gray rain of Delta summers, wonderful rain. -Mexico"
"Don't ruin the present with the ruined past."
"Work is the thing that stays. Work is the thing that sees us through."