Is this the baby?" I said.Ma turned on me again."What do you think it is?" she said. "A midget that can't talk?

It was that impossible thing: happiness that does not wilt to reveal the thin shoots of some new desire rising from within it.

Every step was a victory. He had to remember that.

I guess you just have to trust your kids, trust that their innate interest in life will win out in the end, don’t you think?

A bad thing happened to you kids, Dad said. But it could have been worse.So much worse, Mom said.But because of you kids, Dad said, it wasn't.You did so good, Mom said.Did beautiful, Dad said.

Josh joined her at the window. She let him look. He should know that the world was not all lessons and iguanas and Nintendo. It was also this muddy simple boy tethered like an animal.

The thing about girls? Suzanne said. Is we are more content-driven.

Taking on too much of other people's drama is just a poor excuse for not taking ownership and control over your own life.

A slow, knowing smile came over Keirah's face. Her heart filled with happiness, believing the Gwarda gypsy sitting next to her at this very moment was worthy of her beloved sister.

Collage is the twentieth century's greatest innovation

Perfect. Why was this so hard to find?”The other type of perfect is the type you never could have expected and then could never replicate.

The job of arguing with the umpire belongs to the manager, because it won't hurt the team if he gets thrown out of the game.

You cannot imagine how great it is to step out on the stage with thousands of screaming fans loving you.

The most valuable book we can read, about countries we have visited, is that which recalls to us something that we did notice, but did not notice that we noticed.

Pathetic Earthlings... There's not enough makeup in the universe to cover those hideous, age-ravaged potato sacks that you call faces.

...was treading on dangerous water there... (on Phil Neville)

It begins in the heart...and it hurts when it's true. It only hurts because it's true.