It is almost as easy to be enervated by triumph as by defeat.
. . . they were exactly what the other needed; the missing piece that made everything else magically click into place.
Sometimes what a person needs most is to be forgiven.
I've lived here. . . my whole life. It's where I lost all my baby teeth. Where tiny hamster, gerbil, and bird skeletons lie in rotted-out cardboard coffins beneath the oak tree in our backyard. Also where, if some future archaeologist goes digging, they'll find the remains of a plush toy: a gray terrier named Toto I buried after the accident.
Storytelling wasn't about making things up. It was more like inviting the stories to come through her, let themselves be told.
Ain't no point worrying about what's been or what's gonna be. You just gotta do your best right now. And trust everyone else is doing the same.
The world was full of dangers now that she was pregnant: mercury in tuna, hot tubs, beer, secondhand smoke, over-the-counter medicine. Not to mention crazy baby-abducting fairy kings.
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
Most civilized lives are measured out with coffee spoons.
The process is the goal.
Americans around the country who came forward to make my 'bucket list' dream come true.