With his blond hair, broad shoulders, and perpetual tan, Bryce looked like a California underwear model. Not that I’d thought about him in his underwear.Much.

Maybe I should put an ad online. Honor student seeks overly self-confident young man for fake relationship. Terms negotiable.

I turned into the Greenbrier High School parking lot with a singular mission: figure out a way to keep my brothers from chasing off every guy who seemed interested in me.

This is what intimacy does to us over time. That's what a long marriage can do: It causes us to inherit and trade each other's stories. (p.237)

When your mother asks, 'Do you want a piece of advice?' it is a mere formality. It doesn't matter if you answer yes or no. You're going to get it anyway.

Poetry is news brought to the mountains by a unicorn and an echo.

as though "the Truth" were such an innocent and incompetent creature as to require protectors!

Power doesn't have to be on such a big scale for powerful things to occur. Within your own home, you can be a powerful woman as a mother, influencing your children's lives.

Who is the bad guy? Is America possibly the bad guy?

It's not what's there that counts, it's what's projected and?it's not what he projects but rather what the voter receives? It's not the man we have to change, but rather the received impression.

I was never a strikeout pitcher. Why should I throw eight or nine balls to get a man out when I got away with three or four?

I have never known anyone from Texas, no matter how far they go or what they do, who isn't proud of being from Texas.

Facebook, instagram - I prefer visual communication better than verbal. But I read all the comments, answering too.