15 quotes found
“Truth is worse than soap in the eyes.”
“There's a great deal of power in pretending.”
“You really are a chameleon, aren't you? Fitting in wherever you go."Aren't we all?" she said...”
“I'd forgotten so many important things. I'd stolen away my own past. It made me feel like a coward.”
“Too much work, I guess, to figure out each person as a whole instead of parts of this and parts of that.”
“You're a girl on fire. And it seems to me, you been dousing those flames for years. Let yourself burn a little.”
“I'm an old man now. Old on the inside. I'm a drunk, and I hate to tell you, but I'm not prepared to change. So you have to figure out if you want to forgive me and love me like I am, or run away ag...”
“The kitchen of the Big House was always one of my favorite places. Airy and sunny. No modern cabinets or anything like that. Just a room full of windows, set into wise, worn walls.”
“The kitchen door, painted red from the day Naomi moved in, and a geranium, also red, outside on the stoop, gave the whole area a feeling of whimsy.”
“You'll be just fine," he said. "Listen to your heart and mind together, that's the trick. Not one or the other, both.”
“[P]eople think that in order for something to be frightening, it has to be dark, musty, and full of cobwebs and secrets. That's a lie of epic proportion. The scariest, most unexplainable things hap...”
“Pain is like a map, I guess. But I found my shortcut on my "map of the heart." Shortcuts always take longer, don't they?”
“I'm like the moon," he started, "the hidden side of the moon. Not seen because it don't want to be seen. Everyone knows ther's is shadow there, but no one looks. It's like that with me, Byrd. I'm p...”
“I don't pay no mind to rules. Seems to me, rules are things made up by scared people too afraid to die, so they can't live. Or too lazy to make their own decisions. Rules are for breakin', as far a...”
“Trees down south have a difference to them, a subtle, slinking movement, mile by mile- a gracefulness, a swagger. Lanky trees stretching out their wiry thin, Spanish moss-covered branches, moss tha...”
