Quotes About Author

You called her Kitten? And she let you? She put me in a coma for three days when I called her that! My balls never recovered from her smashing them into my spine!

Don't care for her tongue, do you? How strange. I find it one of my favorite parts. Bones to Gregor

Joanne Woodward's Mrs. Bridge is one of the best performances ever given on film of a middle-aged woman.

I'm grateful to the following writers, whose work you should read if you want to learn more about Mexico and the realities of compulsory migration: Luis Alberto Urrea, Óscar Martínez, Sonia Nazario, Jennifer Clement, Aída Silva Hernández, Rafael Alarcón, Valeria Luiselli, and Reyna Grande.

His shadow makes the shape of grief as he hurtles toward the earth.

empty carafes of wine on their table. "We should get one of those," Sebastián said. And though it was not yet noon, Lydia agreed, and they mostly drank their lunch that day instead of eating it. She cut her eyes at him across the table and did not say the things she wanted to say, that it was asinine of him to write this stuff, that he was turning himself into a target, that she wanted no part of his righteous campaign of truth, that she hoped he was satisfied with

can tell she didn't swallow any. "I'm sorry, it's too risky," Meredith says. "It's not fair to

later drafts of this novel and encouraging me

The first time a head turned up by itself on the street in Acapulco, it was a big deal.

Self-love makes more libertines than love.

Evil is in the existent as its innermost possibility of refusing existence

Georg Bernhard spoke of a kind of 'laziness of the heart' that had taken hold of the democracies. Europe wanted to sleep quietly and rejected anything that could rouse it from its lethargy.

He was the least scary adult present, besides being English and therefore fascinating.

I do have an important question, but I can ask it from out here. Are you dry? Of course I'm dry. Why do you ask that? So many daughters have come home wet lately.

Penderwick took off his glasses and cleaned them on his sleeve.

Is this his eye or his tooth?" asked Aunt Claire, waving around another puzzle piece.

I do, too, understand. Rosalind wants to find creepy ladies for Daddy so we don't have to worry about stepmothers.

She discussed this with Hound when they were alone, and it bothered him, too.

Don't kill her now, just when we've gone to all that trouble to rescue her.

All the stories are wonderful, except maybe the ones about Dominic.

taken aback by the bookshops in all the cathedrals; visions of Jesus chasing the money changers out of the temple sprang to mind.

long braids, used Ivory soap, and liked to stencil her walls with

Their son went to the idol-worshiping, uniform-wearing Catholic school

When he described their actual interactions, I got only the most superficial impression of what she was actually like and a great deal of information about how he felt when he was with her – a sure sign of self-absorption masked as love.