It’s ever been the way of the man of science or philosophy. Most folks stay in the dark and then complain they can’t see nothing.” – Snipes (185)
We had some good times at school. I didn’t know how good those times was till I left, but I guess that’s the way of it
A place where something so terrible had happened shouldn’t continue to exist in the world
Maybe calling it being hitched ain’t the prettiest way to say you’re married, but it’s the truth to my mind and true in a good way, because you’re working together and depending on each other, and you’re sharing the load.
Not for the first time, it occurred to me that sorrow could be purified into song the same way a piece of coal is purified into a diamond.
One thing’s sure and nothing surer. The rich get richer and the poor get- children
We want what’s in this world but we also want what ain’t.
Others can make us vulnerable and the sooner such vulnerabilities are dealt with the better
She had not remembered then what she remembers now, a memory like something buried in river silt that finally works free and rises to the surface…
It struck her how eating was a comfort during a hard time because it reminded you that there had been other days, good days, when you’d eaten the same thing. Reminded you there were good days in life, when precious little else did. (268)
You got one choice at the beginning but if you didn’t choose right, things got narrow real quick.
Dead and still in the world was worse than dead and in the ground. Dead in the ground at least gave you the hope of heaven.
It’s a hard place this world can be. No wonder a baby cries coming in to it. Tears from the start