Chabon Summerland Quotes & Sayings

My wife is unusually kind and generous, but she's no fool. You don't mess with her. — Dan Hill

It was the kind of promise a father makes easily and sincerely, knowing at the same time that it will be impossible to keep. The truth of some promises is not as important as whether or not you can believe in them, with all your heart. A game of baseball can't really make a summer day last forever. A home run can't really heal all the broken places in our world, or in a single human heart. And there was no way that Mr. Feld could keep his promise never to leave Ethan again. All parents leave their children one day. — Michael Chabon

Can you imagine an infinite tree? ... A tree whose roots snake down all the way to the bottomest bottom of everything? ... if you've ever looked at a tree you've seen how its trunk divides into boughs, which divide yet again to branches, which divide into twigs, which divide again into twiglings. The whole mess splaying out in all directions, jutting and twisting and zigzagging. At the tips of the tips you might have a million tiny green shoots, scattered like the sparks of an exploding skyrocket. — Michael Chabon

the doctor
hesitated
before
breaking the news
to her.

"those aren't
stars.

it's cancer."

- forty years a smoker — Amanda Lovelace

The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremely well, without attending to appearance. — Michael Korda

I live to harass white folks. — Derrick Bell

To seek the praise of men as our motivation is to abandon truly great things, for more often than not truly great things elicit the ire of men far more than they garner their praises. — Craig D. Lounsbrough