Will Allison
Will Allison
Will Allison is an American novelist and editor. He is the author of the New York Times bestselling book Long Drive Homeand What You Have Left...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth22 October 1968
CountryUnited States of America
men virtue century
For centuries, the question of men needing to comprehend women simply didn't arise. Men were valued according to how they measured up to the manly virtues.
mother children lefties
My child was one of Nature's Tories pitted against a mother who was one of nurture's Lefties: it was no contest.
believe men want
I don't believe for a minute that women really want to be understood by men.
unrequited-love love-is lasts
The great thing about unrequited love is it's the only kind that lasts.
thinking giving laughing
God probably thinks it’s worth giving a sense of humor only to those of us who have to laugh at all the rubbish bits that are wrong with us.
mother stars boys
A mother of a one-year-old boy is a movie star in a world without critics.
baby motherhood two
The software program for motherhood is impossible to fully download into the male brain. You give them two tasks and they're like, 'I have to change the baby and get the dry cleaning?'
mother laughter balls
Working mothers' laughter comes hardest when our double life is revealed for what it is: a juggling act in which the balls can drop at any time, invariably on our own head.
children kids giving
When you have kids, there's a tendency to put the marriage stew on the back burner and give it a quick stir now and then. But it's important to remember why you had children with this person.
sleep tired alternatives
You learned that if you're tired enough, you can sleep sitting up. That the unendurable is perfectly endurable if you just take it a minute at a time, and when the alternative is no more minutes ever...
return wells defined
In death, we are not defined by what we did or who we were but by what we meant to others. How well we loved and were loved in return.
suffering withdrawal symptoms
Anyone suffering Downton Abbey withdrawal symptoms will find an instant tonic.
writing people body
The bottom line is I'm writing to save the dead. I'm writing to save the people I have lost, some of whose bodies are still walking around.
book survival dying
my life has been saved over and over again by picking up a book in which someone captured the whole experience of being despised and not dying.