Quotes by : Stewart O'Nan

You couldn't relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. You....

Somewhere in this latest humiliation there was a lesson in self-reliance. He'd failed so completely that....

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.....

Her address book confirmed it, the pages inhabited equally by the living and the dead....Each name called....

There was a lot about Kim and J.P. he didn't get.... he was confused by their lack of romance. As a father,....

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

Often, as she leafed through the sticky, plastic-coated pages, spotting herself with a frizzy perm or....

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?