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Is it true? Is it kind? Is it necessary? Does it improve upon the silence? — Mona Simpson

A mother's happiness; something you recognize and then forget; it didn't seem to matter much, though it spread through our bodies. — Mona Simpson

To hear them laugh was to hear that everything was all right, but to see them laugh was to see otherwise — David Finkel

people needed to be turned into frogs. Or pigs. — Patricia Briggs

Fashion is what seems beautiful now but looks ugly later; art can be ugly at first but it becomes beautiful later. — Mona Simpson

In every person's face, there is one place that seems to express them most accurately. With my grandmother, you always looked at her mouth. — Mona Simpson

People are too prone to think that the actual is the limit of possibility. They believe that all that has been done is all that can be done. — Helen Keller

Nothing lasts forever, but old Fords and a natural stone. — Willie Nelson

Life is the farce which everyone has to perform. — Arthur Rimbaud

Why should I care? I have all the money in the world. — LeBron James

The first person besides my mother who believed in me was a man whose last name I never knew. He was my boss, the manager of Swenson's Ice Cream shop. — Mona Simpson

I do have food in my books. Different people eat different ways. — Mona Simpson

Give yourself to the images which are, in fact, already there. — Meinrad Craighead

I'm a believer in using whatever works for fiction, but mostly, that's not life. — Mona Simpson

Almost twelve years of marriage and she's still unlike any woman I've ever known. — Samantha Young

Everybody in America grew up without a father even if they had one. It was the fifties. They were working. — Mona Simpson

We all - in the end - die in medias res. In the middle of a story. Of many stories. — Mona Simpson

'Casebook' is my attempt at a love story. I had a vision of a difficult love. — Mona Simpson

I left the Midwest when I was twelve years old, and I haven't lived in a small town since. — Mona Simpson

Body parts telegraphed complaints from faraway places. — Max Barry

We have all these cultural assumptions about love. People get hurt, and we say, 'Oh, it's no one's fault.' — Mona Simpson

We can't start over and develop a Saturn 5-type vehicle from scratch. — Buzz Aldrin

Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion. — Moliere

I didn't know much about computers. I still worked on a manual Olivetti typewriter. — Mona Simpson

I've never had an exclusive relationship to a room where I write. I used to want one. — Mona Simpson

Reading-not occasionally, not only on vacation but everyday-gives me nourishment and enlarges my life in mysterious and essential ways. — Mona Simpson

We come into the world whole, all of us, but we don't know that, don't know that life will be taking large chunks out of us, forever. — Mona Simpson

I'm a simple cook, and there's a lot I don't eat. But food is important. It translates so easily into pleasure. — Mona Simpson

Gossip is essentially storytelling: storytelling about people whom we know. — Mona Simpson

If we want a great nation, we have to change it ourselves. — Cory Booker

The more you learn about animals and animal rights - it's an intriguing, fascinating world. — Mona Simpson

None so blind as those who won't see. — John Heywood

These stories depressed me. Love ruined people's lives, the way our parents said drugs could. — Mona Simpson

He was a man too busy to flush toilets. — Mona Simpson

He dominated everything: my thoughts, my space, even the air I breathed. — J.C. Reed

So many things that seemed crucial and excruciatingly hard ended and then didn't matter anymore, forever after — Mona Simpson

The way Eli looked at her, my dad looked at the food. — Mona Simpson

But would I have chosen to be Paul? I'd miss Will too much, the feel of his shins. — Mona Simpson

Everyone has that moment where they just rebel. — M.I.A.