Kinnucans Quotes & Sayings

Readers tell me that my novels are filled with significant mothers. Do I realize this? Do I do it on purpose? The truth is, I don't. I think of myself as a writer of family stories. I write more often than not from a male point of view, and I usually begin by focusing on siblings, spouses, even fathers, before I think about the mothers. — Julia Glass

She had this uncanny sense of seeing things the way they were instead of the way you'd want them to be, of knowing me better than I knew myself. She could sniff out the truth even if it hurt. — Mike Gayle

My heart flutters a little. Or something inside my heart flutters; an artery worn so thin that a flap has come loose, is waving about, in the current of my blood. — Kate Morton

Make your will one! Don't listen with your ears, listen with your mind. No, don't listen with your mind, but listen with your spirit. Listening stops with the ears, the mind stops with recognition, but spirit is empty- and waits on all things. The Way gathers in emptiness alone. Emptiness is the fasting of the mind. — Zhuangzi

Not a softness anywhere about me,
Only whalebone and brocade. — Amy Lowell

Much of aging comes from a misunderstanding of the effect of comfort. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I don't really need bulk, just strength. I can get strong without putting on weight. — LaMarcus Aldridge

She won't come back. — Karen Foxlee