“So Westbury isn't the sleepy backwater I think it is? Threads of Kindness”
Source: Threads of Kindness: The Eleventh Novel in the Rosemont Series
“Oh no, honey. Lots of women go through it early. Why, there was this woman over in Georgia who was only thirty-six-years-old and one day she got in her car and drove right up the stairs to the county courthouse, rolled down her window, and tossed her mother's head that she had just chopped off in her kitchen at a State policeman and hollered, "Here! This is what you wanted," and drove right back down the courthouse stairs. Now that's what an early menopause will do for you if you're not careful.”
Source: Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
“There's a big difference between want and need," she muttered to herself, picking her pad and pen back up. "I mean I want a bikini body, but I need chicken nuggets.”
Source: Lost and Found Sisters
“There is no guilt in feelings ever.”
Source: Arch of Triumph: A Novel of a Man Without a Country
“Small towns in remote corners of the world are really quaint, unless you don't fit into them. Then they're just small.”
Source: Wonders of the Invisible World
“When two kindred souls meet, a confluence forms that joins them in an ancient and eternal way. (Dru)”
Source: Heart of the Earth: A Fantastic Mythical Adventure of Courage and Hope, Bound by a Shared Destiny
“By July, a damp Southern heat had settled down on the town like warm sweet syrup.”
“Thus looked at from outside, these guests
--in this dead-and-alive dining room, of this dead-and-alive house, of this dead-and-alive street, of this dead-and-alive little town--in grey, dead winter of the deadliest part of the most deadly war in history--thus seen from a detached point of view, they presented an extraordinary spectacle.”
Source: The Slaves of Solitude
“No, most adults are like her father, whose fear, if he feels any, has been replaced by a kind of melancholy.”
Source: Empire Falls
“Clover City is the kind of place you leave. It's love that either sucks you in or pushes you away. There are only a few who really make it out and stay out, while the rest of us drink, procreate, and go to church, and that seems enough to keep us afloat.”
Source: Dumplin'