Quotessence
Home / Topics / Southern Fiction Quotes

Southern Fiction Quotes

Browse 54 quotes about Southern Fiction.

Southern Fiction Quotes

“He ascended the mountain in darkness, no lamplight, a world black and silver and blue. The moon lay scattered through the woods in blades, glowing palely, the wind rising now and again to moan through the trees. The trail scrawled ever upward, toward the looming darkness of the mountain's peak. Above it all the sea of night, the strange ornamentation of stars.”

FictionNovelSouthern FictionSouthern Writers
Book:Gods of Howl Mountain
Create image

“Today, it is the scent of honeysuckle that takes me back in time and lays me down near a barn. I pick a honeysuckle blossom, touch the trumpet to my nose and inhale. With sticky filthy fingers, I pinch the base of its delicate well then lick the drop of nectar. The sweet liquid makes me thirst for more, and I reach for another and another, the same hands that reach again and again for tobacco as I string. I separate honeysuckle blossoms and taste.”

FarmingTobaccoSouthern FictionFarm LifeSouthern WomenStringing Tobacco
Author:Brenda Sutton Rose
Create image

“When people ate what Anna O'Brien baked, they smiled wider, laughed louder, and left the bakery she'd inherited with more confidence than when they arrived. Her chocolate chip cookies made Jordan Hillman propose to Julie Farmer on their fourth date. Her OREO brownies caused Roger Jackson to think he could dance the Charleston like he had in the '40's. One sip of her Saturday morning hot chocolate made everyone a good neighbor. People in town swore Anna could make anything better than the original, and they were right. It was a skill she'd been honing since she was big enough to stand on a step stool and help her grandma in the kitchen. While most children spent their after-school time watching cartoons and their summers flying kites and playing pickup games of baseball, Anna spent almost all her free time helping at Bea's Bakery. Anna had a superior sense for knowing how to combine ingredients and flavors into delicious creations. She also had an unusually strong sense of smell, which gave her an incredible advantage for pairing ingredients in a way that enhanced the eating experience. Each treat she made engaged the eyes, the nose, the tongue, and every pleasing nerve in the body.”

Magical RealismSouthern FictionLocal FoodBakerGifted Woman
Book:The Baker's Man
Create image

“As Chloe pulled out of the drive, she realized the weapon next to her made her feel like she was more in control of the situation. As she drove down the Mississippi back roads, a sense of peace settled in her soul. Chloe knew it wasn’t just the .45 resting on her front seat that brought the feeling. It was more of an awareness of being where she belonged. But that was crazy.”

ThrillerCrime FictionSuspense ThrillerMystery SuspenseSouthern FictionThrillers MysterySouthern WritersSuspense FictionThriller Suspense
Book:Blood Beneath the Pines
Create image

“By the standards of a tourist strolling past looking for a quick lunch, the place was a dive. The sign on the window was small and easy to miss, and the antique feel of the place wasn't the prepackaged, old-shit-on-the-wall nostalgia that came with so many chain restaurants. The cafe was just old, and everything about it said old. But Jon liked it that way, if only because it kept the tourists away and spared him from hearing imported ignorance when there was plenty of local ignorance to go around.”

HumorScience FictionSatireHumorous QuotesSouthern FictionScience Fiction ThrillersImmaculate DeceptionScience Fiction Comedy
Author:Scott B. Pruden
Create image

“Hiding had been effortless in New York City. Getting lost in a sea of people was as easy as stepping onto a crowded Subway car. Sweet Laurel Cove would be very different. Generations of families filled its church pews, ran its farms, and schooled its children. Anonymity was as rare as lightning bugs in wintertime—as her grandmother would say.”

RomanceContemporary RomanceChristian FictionBlue Ridge MountainsSouthern FictionInspirational RomanceSouthern Romance
Book:Someplace Familiar
Create image

“I love to watch her move over me. Face as lovely as any heavenly constellation. As I breathe her in, intoxicating. Her body entwined with mine, the thing I crave for a lifetime of I love yous before we crash back into the wide, wide, sea.”

RomanceRomance Book QuotesHappy EndingsRomantic ComedySecond ChancesMasqueradeSouthern FictionNew ReleaseSouthern RomanceHidden Identity
Book:Not On Your Latte: A HOT Southern Romance
Create image