"In my world, the migration of a story is something we recognize, and we respect. Works of art can overlap, or they can sort of chime in...

"Yeah, my body won't allow for a lot of ambitious plans I'd had, but it also won't allow for any bullshit..."

"...she left her bedroom to find an atmosphere of regret hanging over the house."

"Researching Late Bloomers has left me thoroughly convinced that America and many parts of the world face a crisis of untapped and...

"The old house was being renovated. Even from this distance he could see the evidence of it in the yard: piles of timber, a small bonfire...

"A part of me needed to suffer. Suffering is painful and tangible, but something I could curl up with, and I did."

"Gunnen (Dutch) [describes] the action of wishing a positive experience upon another...When we experience..kindness..we behave more kindly"

"By day we worked in their orchards and fields, but every night, we returned home."

"...There are three stages in a life: Youth, Middle Age, and You're-looking-great!"

'"Hi Mum," I say. "Leena, hi!" I wince. She's all breezy and faux casual, like she's practiced the greeting before making the call...."

"We have seasons when we flourish and seasons when the leaves fall from us, revealing our bare bones. Given time, they grow again.”

"...perhaps he is one of the dying breed who understand that, if they want bookshops to survive, they have to support them."

"I miss my iPhone! I'll never complain about the autocorrect function again." Lately I've been enjoying this genre of books that involve...

All along...he had experienced only the most glancing relationship with his own life..."

“He hated the way every drug...scooped the solidity right out of the world and left it quicksand-textured, cracked...and wavering..."

“Seasons flow in a cycle. Life too, passes through difficult winters. But after any winter, spring will follow.”

"She replies, 'He came out of my body. He's a homosexual. He left his mother with a stranger. I've already got everything I need to know.'"

I absolutely loved this book about a young woman named Nora Seed who decides to take an overdose when all in her life seems too agonizing...

Author Denise Kiernan traces the origins of the Thanksgiving holiday and explores the idea of expressing gratitude collectively as a...

"She was an optimist at heart and viewed travel as transformative, a coming together of life and poetry."