Nothing is more comforting to people than to have their certainties trumpeted back to them in bold, clear typeface. The Empire of Ice Cream (2006)
Halloween was close, our favorite holiday because it carried none of the pain-in-the-ass holiness of Christmas and still there was free candy. The Empire of Ice Cream (2006)
Parents—so essential yet sometimes like something you have stepped in and cannot get off your shoe. What else is there but to love them? The Empire of Ice Cream (2006)
Now I was stuck and could feel the tide of years suddenly beginning to rise around me. The Empire of Ice Cream (2006)
The wind and sun, the salt water, the hard work aged a body rapidly, and when I would look at the old man who clammed, I was too young to sense the wisdom their years on the water had bestowed upon them and saw only what I did not want to become. The Empire of Ice Cream (2006)