Richard Russo

They stayed, many of them, because staying was easier and less scary than leaving, and because for a while at least they’d be able to draw unemploy

They stayed, many of them, because staying was easier and less scary than leaving, and because for a while at least they’d be able to draw unemploy

Being mayor of Empire Falls was a full-time job with a part-time salary,

If chickens had any idea what was in store for them, they’d stay where they were in their eggs.

Good fences make good neighbors.

The terrible truth was that such slender gestures seemed even to Miles, at sixteen, both too much and too little, more than just about everyone else was willing to do but far less than conscience dictated.

it was a lot easier to forget a thousand things you wanted to remember than the one thing you wanted to lose sight of.