“Mom, for example, is Procter and Gamble’s perfect repeat customer. Renovation contractors send her personalized Christmas cards. She lives for the Sunday edition of our local newspaper. She thumbs through the “Modern Home” section. She mopes through the rest of the day, unhappy with all her outdated things.”
Source: Zonked Out: The Teen Psychologist of San Marcos Who Killed Her Santa Claus and Found the Blue-Black Edge of the Love Universe
“Advertising executives must be wringing their greedy hands over the prospect, anxious for their next holiday campaign. Mom is helpless before them all.
We’re not a family anymore. We’re a commodity in an Amazon database.
Are we humans, or consumers?”
Source: Zonked Out: The Teen Psychologist of San Marcos Who Killed Her Santa Claus and Found the Blue-Black Edge of the Love Universe
“Monuments make momentous men immortal, but more memorable are mortal men making mere moments monumental.”
Source: The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories, Vol. 3
“But no name has ever equaled the odd name of Triplebippleabbledabblekadupledop Smith...”
Source: Mr. Smith and His Delicious Ice Cream: A Bluster County Tale
“So you drugged me with a drug that would keep the drug I might eat from drugging me just in case?”
Source: Demons in Disguise
“In the sixth grade there was a boy in my class who had a steel plate in his skull and was always complaining how text answers could never get through to him. Our teacher would say, ‘Give me a break.’ In a way, though, the boy was right. Every human being on the face of the earth has a steel plate in his head, but if you lie down now and then and get still as you can, it will slide open like elevator doors, letting in all the secret thoughts that have been standing around so patiently, pushing the button for a ride to the top. The real troubles in life happen when those hidden doors stay closed for too long. But that’s just my opinion.”
Source: The Secret Life of Bees
“Is there any knowledge that refreshes the soul, renew the spirit, and restored the body like the study of the Holy Scriptures?”
“Ice cream refreshes the soul and life. Some say, ‘I'm going out to get a fresh air’. Eat ice cream and fresh up your life.”
“To live in the hearts we leave behind is to live forever.”
Source: Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium
“Writers don't write from experience, although many are hesitant to admit that they don't. ...If you wrote from experience, you'd get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy.”