Quotes by : Stewart O'Nan

He didn't like to fly--the noise and vibration gave him a headache--but, as with anything new, he was....

For most of her life she just expected things would work out, that people would be kind. Now she recognized....

I'm sorry you don't like coming back here," her mother often said, to cap whatever petty dust-up they'd....

It was the ultimate cautionary tale, the moral being Don't fall, as if they were made of glass. In a....

Growing up in the '60s and early '70s, with the space flight and the Apollo program, I always loved planes.....

They should.""Should be like a wood bee," she said.It was a private joke, a mocking appreciation of the....

She had a vision of the two of them trapped on a tiny raft surrounded by miles of open water. It would....

The happiest she'd ever been was with him, and the saddest. Was that the true test of love?

What man wanted a woman without fire, and vice-versa?

Why was he drawn to complicated women, or were all women--all people, finally--complicated?