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So many problems, however infinitely varied they first appear, turn out to be matters of money. I can't tell you how much this offends me.

But no one is easier to delude than a parent; they see only what they wish to see.

My sister, Fern. In the whole wide world, my only red poker chip.

In Chinese, the character for woman was a man on his knees

He referred to the human brain as a clown car parked between our ears. Open the doors and the clowns pile out.

Is there a character in all of fiction more isolated than the little red hen?

Miss Sarzin was the best teacher I ever had.

In the phrase ' human being,' the word 'being' is much more important than the word 'human.'

Technically a memoir, 'The Woman Warrior' becomes almost magical through its inclusion of folk tales, dreams, and revisions.

My uncle Bob sees the whole world in a fun-house mirror, TRUST NO ONE lipsticked luridly across its bowed face.

Whoever I was before is no one I ever got to know.

I have always been a generous and enthusiastic reader.

Out there is South Dakota," Kitch had said, "Matt said they treated Fern like some kind of animal.

Antagonism in my family comes wrapped in layers of code, sideways feints, full deniability. I believe the same can be said of many families.

Pheromones are Earth's primordial idiom.

Please assume that I am talking continuously in all the scenes that follow until I tell you that I'm not.

It was the marriage that was important; Jane Austen rarely even bothered to write about the wedding.

Maybe friendship was not as big a deal as I'd thought and I actually had lots of friends.

One Mother's Day, he gave Mom a music box that played the theme from Swan Lake. She cried for days over it.

Sometimes you best avoid talking by being quiet, but sometimes you best avoid talking by talking.

Language is such an imprecise vehicle I sometimes wonder why we bother with it.

We are so excited that, in the strangely illuminating phrase my mother favours, we're completely beside ourselves.

There's science and there's science, is all I'm saying. Where humans are the subjects, it's mostly not science

The rest of the night was an endless dream sequence directed by David Lynch

Let us never underestimate the power of a well-written letter.

In everyone's life there are people who stay and people who go and people who are taken against their will.

The sunset you see is always better than the one you don't. More stars are always better than less.

Solipsism. According to solipsism, reality exists only inside

My old kindergarten behaviors, so appalling when I was a kindergartner myself, are apparently quite acceptable in a teacher.

I admired her choices though I wouldn't have made them.

Lots of people go mad in January. Not as many as in May, of course. Nor June. But January is your third most common month for madness.

Jocelyn was dumbstruck. She couldn't think of a single thing
she'd done that might give that impression. "I don't.

Baby, high school's over.
High school's never over..

But where you succeed will never matter so much as where you fail.

You know, I don't think there's anything truly unforgivable. Not where there's love.

He envied the bark, which had been, in the course of one lifetime, both forest and fire. One endured; one destroyed.

There are moments when history and memory seem like a mist, as if what really happened matters less than what should have happened.

I wasn't happy, exactly, but I was remembering how happiness felt.

Tryptophan: a chemical in turkey meat rumored to make you sleepy and careless. One of the many minefields in the landscape of the family Thanksgiving.

Let the wild ruckus commence.

I had a very loyal cult-like following, I feel. And I don't mean to complain about that.

It kept Mom on high alert and I worried sometimes that their marriage had become the sort Inspector Javert might have had with Jean Valjean.

I thought there were moments to complain about your parents and moments to be grateful, and it was a shame to mix those moments up.

When there is an invisible elephant in the room, one is from time to time bound to trip over a trunk.

All best-of lists should close with the amazing Kelly Link.

I'm red as a berry, shiny from the pickling of the womb, and squinting at the world through suspicious, slitted eyes.

It was always her failure for not being able to talk to us, never ours for not being able to understand her.

Like they say, you never know a person till you've done time with them.

My education, my father liked to point out, was wider than it was deep.

But a story never told is also a danger, particularly to the people in it.

You can't imagine the white-hot fury someone who can't sleep has toward the beautiful dreamer beside him.

When I run the world, librarians will be exempt from tragedy. Even their smaller sorrows will last only for as long as you can take out a book.

Airports and train stations are where you get to cry

No Utopia is Utopia for everyone

When a portent repeats itself three times, like something out of Julius Caesar, even Caliban, a couple of plays over, is bound to notice.

Life is all arrivals and departures.

Each of us has a private Austen.

If stupid were fuel, we would never run out.

The only way to make any sense of the United States Congress, our father told me once, is to view it as a two-hundred-year-long primate study.

Don't side with assholes, she said. Her voice was very not chill.

I still haven't found the place where I can be my true self. But maybe you never get to be your true self, either.

Scully was appallingly gregarious - so outgoing she was practically incoming.

Where you succeed will never so much matter as where you fail.
-We Are All Beside Ourselves

Ipecac syrup of happiness. There Lowell would be. With Harlow.

who knows you better than your own brother?

Without our listening, all the stories are the same story.

...the world runs on the fuel of an endless, fathomless animal misery.

Octavia Butler was more interested in writing a good story than in worrying about where to slot it.

It was one of those subjects to which everything that slithers across your brain seems relevant. I find this to be true of most topics.

Over the years i've come to feel that the way people respond to us has less to do with what we've done and more to do with who they are.

A night that began with mind-reading a grateful crustacean and ended with drunken elves would be a night to remember.

There's no data to suggest that I can make you love me whatever I do.

I'm unclear on the definition of person the courts have been using. Something that sieves out dolphins but lets corporations slide on through.

The value of money is a scam perpetrated by those who have it over those who don't

I can't say that winning the Pen/Faulkner was a dream come true because I would never have dared to dream it.

Arriving late was a way of saying that your own time was more valuable than the time of the person who waited for you.

The dog show emphasizes bloodline, appearance, and comportment, but money and breeding are never far from anyone's mind.

I once broke up with a boy because he wrote me an awful poem.

You learn as much from failure as from success, Dad always says. Though no one admires you for it.

The storm which blew me out of my past eased off.

I read my books to writing workshops and friends, and I'm often focussed just on keeping them entertained. I never think about marketing at all.

It was one of her delightful qualities; she wept with those who wept.

We call them feelings because we feel them. They don't start in our minds, they arise in our bodies,

We sat around our own table, an island of sad reflection in an ocean of merry din.

Apparently, all you needed to be considered normal was no evidence to the contrary.

I'd no particular ambitions beyond being either widely admired or stealthily influential - I was torn between the two.

Fair warning, as it turned out - kindergarten is all about learning which parts of you are welcome at school and which are not.

At twenty-two, I had the callowest possible definition of interesting and, by the measure of my own calipers, was far from interesting myself.

Trees are as close to immortality as the rest of us ever come.

Reading Austen is a frickin' mine field.

A man says something. Sometimes it turns out to be the truth, but this has nothing to do with the man who says it.

I am shaking it, popping it, laying it down and working it out

But I knew that, both in fairyland and the real world, too, wishes were a slipperier things.

Maybe anosognosia, the inability to see your own disability, is the human condition and I'm the only one who doesn't suffer from it.