Vicki Covington

The longing for a man, as you know, is a grand escape. It can arch your mental process to extremes so that, like a gymnast or a ballerina, you__e contorted to such outrageous limits _ I__ speaking of passion _ that nothing else matters. I wanted this. I desired diversion.

All the men I know add that __ands that prepared it_ line. They must know it__ right complimentary, an incentive to keep the women cooking.

Wasting talent is a sin. I__ not big on sin, but I know a sin when I see one staring me in the face. I__ not big on sin, but I know a sin when I see one staring me in the face. It__ just not courteous to not use or wear something that somebody__ given you as a well-meaning gift. It goes against Southern ways, not that God is Southern by any stretch of the imagination, but I do think He expects us to be an example for the rest of the country, as far as manners go.

I__e never known a tranquil atheist. Don__ they always look like they just sat on a tack?

If there__ one thing I learned in Alanon, it__ that you got to face the music because it just grows louder when you ignore it.

I allowed myself a microscopic view into his ice-colored eyes. It was like viewing one of those photographs of the Arctic region _ very foreign, exotic, clearly a place you__e never dreamed of going.

I was that kind of tired you feel when you__e spent a day in a hospital while a loved one undergoes surgery and comes through all right, the loved one, of course, being myself, and Christmas being the surgical procedure.

I__ serious, now let me know every time you see her cry. The thought brings me great joy. Hope.

Neva ought to smile more. It breaks her anxiety into tiny pieces of joy you want to gather up and hand back to her in your palms, as if to say, __ee what you can make when you loose the reins.

Old age breeds the miracle of recall. You have no short-term memory atall; you can__ remember what you did minutes ago, but you can recall with exquisite clarity what you did on your fifth birthday and how it all felt.

The choice was whether to be sad and foolish or sad and reasonable.