Friends are like sugar. When you have them, you'll feel happiness. When you have too many of them, you will suffer.

She had a voice so husky it could have pulled a dogsled, and the gun she was holding gave me a bad case of barrel envy.

I should have realized, when Cathal kissed me in the hallway, that my response was the first raindrop heralding a storm.

unless you're the lead dog the view never changes...mercy out does justice every time:always find your way back home

A metaphor is not an ornament. It is an organ of perception. Through metaphors, we see the world as one thing or another.

A sheet spread beneath an apple-tree can receive only apples; a sheet spread beneath the stars can receive only star-dust.

I said nothing for a time, just ran my fingertips along the edge of the human-shaped emptiness that had been left inside me.

Grandmother was like an opal. You could never be sure which colors were really there and which were just tricks of the light.

But it is just two lovers, holding hands and in a hurry to reach their car, their locked hands a starfish leaping through the dark.

A half roll of Life Savers fused to the pockets,And in yet another, a lone unwrapped mintHad bundled itself in a stole of gray lint.

Life' wrote a friend of mine, 'is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.

Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.

Mason took in enough cannabis smoke to allow a Lipan Apache manipulating a blanket over it to transmit the complete works of Tennyson.

The heart pointed to the brain and said with great disdain, “Those who live their lives in here live the lives most full of fear.

I’ve never had a rat, never chased one. I chase my own tail and that’s enough. I must now make plans for the day I catch it.