“If a person acts out of character, then there’s one thing you can be sure of: there is something wrong. I have seen this so many times I have lost count.”
Source: The Woman Who Walked in Sunshine
“…photographs on a wall were there for people to see and to examine if interested; an album is a different thing…”
Source: The Woman Who Walked in Sunshine
“There are broad shoulders, the saying went, even where there are no broad shoulders.”
Source: The Woman Who Walked in Sunshine
“Be yourself, not who the world expects you to be… Honor the truth of who you are, not the expectations the world places on you.”
Source: The Light in the Heart
“What we have, we all must lose—that applied to everything, even to that which we thought we had the greatest right. We were tenants of this earth—nothing more.”
Source: At the Reunion Buffet
“Class reunions were about curiosity; about satisfaction at the avoidance of the mistakes of one’s contemporaries, now revealed in their emerging life histories; about reflecting on the ravages—and injustices—of time; and of realizing, perhaps, how strange and random are the twists and turns of fate.”
Source: At the Reunion Buffet
“Unless we do something about the past, she thought, then it will weigh us down to such an extent that we simply cannot move. Is that what I want?”
Source: At the Reunion Buffet
“The juvenile adage Never kiss and tell had a sound moral instinct behind it.”
Source: At the Reunion Buffet
“…people decided what they thought and would not be moved, not even by the most patient, the most rational argument.”
Source: At the Reunion Buffet
“Tolerance was like one of those soothing creams—it drew out inflammation, it did away with the pain.”
Source: At the Reunion Buffet