Animal Dreams Quotes

This is my problem—I clearly remember things I haven't seen, sometimes things that never happened. And draw a blank on the things I've lived through. (5.97)

Trish fiddled with her bra strap. "Hallie always would just up and do anything under the blue sky," she said."You're right," I told Trish. "I wish I were that brave. I'd be scared to death to be wh...

He watches his daughter, though there's nothing to watch, and thinks these words: "A great-grandmother who isn't their business." He decides this will be their last year for the cemetery and the Da...

Carlo and I med in medical school, [...] Along the way I'd landed a few presentable jobs, but in between I tended to drift, like a well-meaning visitor to this planet awaiting instructions. My care...

[Nicholas] spotted a hummingbird. It buzzed around the red tubes of a potted penstamon that stood by itself in the center of the courtyard. His eyes followed the bird as it darted up and down, a hi...

Our home fell apart when she left. She was our center of gravity, the only one of us who saw life as a controllable project. Carlo was an orphan like me. We forgot all about the jade plants, they w...

The dead mountain range of tailings on the lip of the mine had sat for decades, washed by rain, and still was barren as the Sahara. From a distance you might guess these piles of dirt to be fragile...

I could see plainly then that it was a heavy-bodied peacock shuffling from side to side on a low branch. Apparently the creature was too dull-witted or terrorized to escape, or possibly already inj...