“In my aloneness, I find God. He is there always, but the noise drowned Him out.” Inspirational QuotesInspirational LifeInspirational Living Author:Toni Orrill
“This story (novel-in-progress) tells of suffering. Many scripts ignore pain, but suffering is part of the human condition. Christ suffered, yet there is joy in His redemptive work. #salvation” ChristianityInspirational LifeChristian Fiction Author:Toni Orrill
“And when the clouds come, I sink; and when the skies dawn, I rise.” Inspirational QuotePoppyInspirationallovePoppykingthenovel 1Southern Fiction Southernlit Author:Toni Orrill
“Always leave behind a garden.” Inspirational QuotesLife Lessons QuotesBloom Where You Are Planted Author:Toni Orrill
“Now git goin thru that screen door before I use it as a weapon. You're just a witless fool. That's what you are, a fool, Mae Mae said, shaking her head as if she had just discovered truth. An' put a log on that fire for me on your way out. Make yourself useful for something but misery. Cause you messed with the wrong MaMae. Look in my eyes. Philip, in all of his dejection and correction, had to look with respect. Yes, maam, he said sheepishly looking up from from the pine floor into her narrow, serious eyes. See I see right thru ya, she said, noddin her chin and holding her eyes like fire into his soul. An' the motives of your heart are stinkin up the place. I don't want the kids to smell it when they wake up from their naps. I don't know what's wrong with your generation. Missing men. No fathers. It disgusts me. At least in my time, women got some respect an alimony. An my daughter's got six kids and broke. But yours, they just gone missing. Hiding up in the woods with some women. Or abscounding to your cousin Satchie's trailer. Not supportin' them kids. Goin to jail. Servin their selves instead of the One who made 'em. It ain't no man problem, it's a sin probl'm. An people my age just sick that none of yall, no not one, know the capital letters of RESPONSIBILITY. Now take your lies and country jeans an drive down the gravel cause you ain't welcome here no more. The screen is locked, Ma Mae shouted as Philip walked blankly out the door.” PhilipPoppykingthenovelseriesMa MaePoppy S Estranged HusbandSouthern Matriarch Author:Toni Orrill
“Iam a writer. I just happen to propagate mint and love bundt cake.” Southern LitSouthern GirlSojourner Truth Author:Toni Orrill
“I don't really like to go on emotional rides with people. I like to drive.” Southern LitSouthern LiteraturePoppykingthenovelseries Author:Toni Orrill
“I have learn'd Poppy that people come an' go. Only Jesus is your true friend. And even He had Judas. Git rid of your Judas. Like your sister. Marc has lost his mind. Buying one gift for her an' anoth'r for Cherie. That boy bet'r git himself home. There's ain't no blessing in sin, I tell ya. The devil roams, he prowls Poppy and a man's heart is fertile territory.” MississippiLouisianaSouthern FictionSouthern LitAm Writing Author:Toni Orrill
“Close your circle Poppy, tight, like a noose on a rat. Protect your heart like a guard dog, cause people have lost their minds Poppy, like sheep they've gone astray. Out in the wilderness. But you've been found. Shine the light cause its a dark world, but you don't have to face it alone. Aww, Ma Mae, you always know what to say. That was actually sweet. Poppy went to embrace her mother but Ma Mae put out her hand in resistence. No hugs, you know I'm not a hugger. How can you be a southern woman and not hug? Lotsa experience hugging the wrong people.” Ma MaePoppy King The Novel Series Author:Toni Orrill
“My daughter needs fidelity, not juvenility, Ma Mae said, flippin her head like a backlash. Sissy: Mama, that's not w rod. Poppy: Actually, that is a word. Now I know I have a gene pool of vocabulary. I just thought it had been a fluke. She actually knows words. "Mama why don't you speak like that all the time. That was smart. I just save it for letters and legal papers. No need to waste my brain. It comes out too when I'm mad. Philip just stood there watching the women go back and forth and knew the apples were with the tree.” Ma Mae To PhilipPoppy S Estranged HusbandSissy King Wasserman Author:Toni Orrill
“Poppy held John's hand until it came time to walk alone behind older men, lick a wound instead of rely upon a kiss, or even begin to sense how people can be wicked, the world displeasing and all of life beaten by grace.” PoppykingthenovelseriesSouthernlitSouthernfiction Author:Toni Orrill
“Why, she's as mild as a flower! She ain't hurt nobody! Now git in the kitchen and git some chicory!” Southern FictionCoffee QuotesSouthern WomenSouthernersChicory Author:Toni Orrill
“Come git all your cajun spices out of my kitchen. I told ya I don't like Cajun, I like creole. Those spices burn my intestins.' Tearin me up with your bird injectors and foul fish. I don't need your kindness. not when you're cheatin on my daughter.” Disappearing ActsMa Mae To PhilipPoppy S Husband Author:Toni Orrill