The body's a funny thing. It's so full of surprises that it makes conventional wisdom seem silly.
Fantasy is one of the soul's brighter porcelains.
The pursuit of greatness means that laziness has no place in your life.
Her laughter was a shiny thing, like pewter flung high in the air.
It enclosed us in its laceries as we watched the moon spill across the Atlantic like wine from an overturned glass. With the light all around us, we felt secret in that moon-infused water like pearls forming in the soft tissues of oysters.
Carolina beach music," Dupree said, coming up on the porch. "The holiest sound on earth.
Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide.
Writing poetry and reading books causes brain damage.
One can learn anything, anything at all, I thought, if provided by a gifted and passionate teacher.
The water was pure and cold and came out of the Apennines tasting like snow melted in the hands of a pretty girl.
