Possibility, infinity, beauty — none of those words were right. […] What he really wanted to say was: have you felt this? this phantom life streaking like a phosphorescent hound at the edges of your...

I later discovered that in order to be a good athlete one must care intensely what is happening with a ball, even if one doesn’t have possession of it. This was ultimately my failure: my...

That cat doesn’t have a lick of sense,’ I said, sighing.Well, honey, he’s not right in the head,’ Dad said, flipping his cigarette into the front yard.I glared at him. ‘And just what do you...

What kind of good deeds? Like Girl Scouts? Because I got kicked out of Brownies and they won’t give me another chance to keep my clothes on at camp.

Decoupage hit Mooreland pretty hard…

There are people in this world so perfect that the fact of them seems like a personal gift…

One chance–that’s what she had seen she had–one flying leap that was really composed of eight thousand separate possibilities for falling, and she had taken that chance and come this far and been found out.

Ordinarily my mom just sunk deeper into her corner of the couch and ignored it. She had succesfully ignored a quarter of a century of entropy and decay, had sat peacefully crunching popcorn and drinking...