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Kaye Gibbons is an American novelist born on May 5, 1960. Her works are known for their delicate emotions and profound social insights, mainly exploring themes of family, love, and identity recognition.

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All Thinking Knows Way Enough Fool Ifs Might Sometimes Able Accidents

Famous Kaye Gibbons Quotes

“My mother told me a million times that Ireland and the Irish people were special, and that the O'Cadhain family in particular was the most blessed of all because it had been imposed upon without cease since the dawn it sprung up in Galway. For centuries they had been in training to have nothing, so everything was more or less working perfectly according to God's plan.”

Poverty Adversity Resilience Irish

Book:A Cure for Dreams

Source: A Cure for Dreams

“Oh, it's no crime to want and need somebody to love and to be loved by and to go and do what you need to do to have that, but its certainly a pity when you want it so badly you'll let it be anybody.”

Love Need Desparation

Book:A Virtuous Woman

Source: A Virtuous Woman

“Unless society came out past Flat Rock Crossroads, kept on past Booker T. High School, hung two rights, a left, turned in on Milk Farm Road and found Roland plowing a tobacco field, jerked him off the tractor, warped him and set him back up there without anybody riding by and noticing, blame can't be laid on society.”

Responsibility Society Blame

Book:A Virtuous Woman

Source: A Virtuous Woman

“In closing, I hope everything helps show that I wouldn’t be a fade-out or a person who turns to think to drink or dope when things get tough. I believe that anything is possible if you have the combination of love for what you’re doing and the will to sit down and not get up until it’s done….”

Humor Hope

Book:The Life All Around Me By Ellen Foster

Source: The Life All Around Me By Ellen Foster

“Mothers smell blood before the wound is given. We see the rent place on the child's arm before the arrow strikes.”

Children Mother Given Blood Arms Smell Strikes Wounds Arrows

Book:On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon

Source: On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon

“I read about writers' lives with the fascination of one slowing down to get a good look at an automobile accident.”

Looks Accidents Looking Good Slow Down Fascination Automobile Slowing

Author:Kaye Gibbons

“The fact that he had foamed at the mouth immediately upon dying, indicated that he had a great back jam of wishes and desires and truths that were never spoken...out bubbled all the words he had swallowed when he was alive.”

Facts Desire Wish Alive Dying Mouths Jam

Author:Kaye Gibbons

“You’ll find your one-in-a-million. But you’re sharp enough to know there’s no point in sludging through the first nine hundred, ninety-nine thousand, and ninety-nine to get to him.”

Knows Firsts Enough Millions Thousand Hundred Nine Ninety No Point Ninety Nine One In A Million

Book:Charms for the Easy Life

Source: Charms for the Easy Life

“I am a great believer in variations on the routine.”

Believer Routine Variation

Author:Kaye Gibbons

“It took me a long time to learn that mistakes aren't good or bad, they're just mistakes, and you clean them up and go on.”

Life Long Motivational Time Mistake Goes On Wise Words Long Time Clean Good Moving On Novelists Making Mistakes Deep Thought Learning From Mistakes Live And Learn Wise Women We All Make Mistakes

Book:A Virtuous Woman

Source: A Virtuous Woman

“I could wake her up and ask have you ever been to the ocean? but I already know that answer. She has not. You can tell. It would humble you I whisper to her sleeping if you for one time stood by something stronger than yourself.”

Ifs Knows Asks Sleep Answers Ocean Stronger Humble One Time

Book:Ellen Foster

Source: Ellen Foster

“I might be confused sometimes in my head but it is not something you need to talk about. Before you can talk you have to line it all up in order and I had rather just let it swirl around until I am too tired to think. You just let the motion in your head wear you out. Never think about it. You just make a bigger mess that way.”

Thinking Way Needs Sometimes Might Order Lines Bigger Tired Mess Confused Swirls

Author:Kaye Gibbons

“Have you ever felt like you could cry because you know you just heard the most important thing anybody in the world could have spoke at that second?”

Knows World Important Felt Heard Cry Like You Important Things Spokes

Book:Ellen Foster

Source: Ellen Foster

“I could lay here and read all night. I am not able to fall asleep without reading. You have the time when your brain has nothing to do so it rambles. I fool my brain out of that by making it read until it shuts off. I just think it is best to do something right up until you fall asleep.”

Thinking Able Night Fall Reading Brain Fool Lays All Night

Book:Ellen Foster

Source: Ellen Foster

“You see if you tell yourself the same tale over and over again enough times then the tellings become separate stories and you will generally fool yourself into forgetting you started with one solitary season out of your life.”

Ifs Enough Stories Forget Fool Seasons Tales Solitary Enough Time Forget You

Author:Kaye Gibbons

“When I was little I would think of ways to kill my daddy.”

Thinking Way Littles Daddy

Book:Ellen Foster

Source: Ellen Foster

“That's all my grandfather was guilty of, fear, faith in his words, but that was a high crime in her eyes. That's all Jack was guilty of that day, but I've lived with him a good while and I believe I understand him. Sometimes it might take an afternoon or evening of being here in this kitchen alone, thinking, but I can usually come to see his reasons through his ways. And half the job of finding peace is finding understanding. Don't you believe it to be so?”

Thinking Way Believe I Can Sometimes Reason Might Eye Jobs I Believe Fear Understanding Half Crime Findings Guilty Evening Kitchen Afternoon Grandfather Her Eyes My Grandfather Finding Peace

Author:Kaye Gibbons

About the Author

Born: May 5, 1960
Known for: Novelist
Quotes: 17

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