Reynolds Price

“I think the best of us are cursed with caring.”

“The only real possession is memory. In the end, that's all there is.”

“A great story is a great story, no matter where it comes from.”

“The core of any family is what is unspoken.”

“A need to tell and hear stories is essential to the species Homo sapiens--second in necessity apparently after nourishment and before love and shelter.”

“The most durable thing in love is a sense of humor.”

“The world is not a courtroom. There is no judge, no jury, no prosecutor. There's just you and your conscience.”

“Mystery is the characterizing word for our existence.”

“My lifelong first love affair was with the sound of the English language.”

“For a long time, I've known that the key to literally everything is patience. You get nothing worth having by rushing.”

“So much of what we learn about love is taught by people who never really loved us.”

“To be forgiven is to be loved.”

“Home is the place that's waiting for you.”

“We are what we have been told about ourselves. We are the sum of the messages we have received.”

“The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.”

“All stories are love stories.”

“You can't always write what you know. You can only write what you can imagine.”