“ Everybody's always doing the same old things--- you know, doing unto others before they can do unto you. Michael Lee West
“ You raise them half-decent, and they grow up and leave. They move to Miami or California-- someplace with gourmet groceries and nude beaches because you've reared them to cook good and be liberal mind… Michael Lee West
“ Now that Olive was grown, I didn't know what to do with myself. You could build your life around one single thing, like a view or a child, but that was risky. You had so much to lose. Michael Lee West
“ This is how the soul heals. it thaws out bit by bit, the way the ground warms after a hard winter. you notive the sun or hear the whippoorwill calling across the flats. You sweep your porch, go drink… Michael Lee West
“ There was another thing I had forgotten about the South: It was the one place on earth where an unsuspecting person could get killed by kindness. Michael Lee West
“ I was tired of well-meaning folks, telling me it was time I got over being heartbroke. When somebody tells you that, a little bell ought to ding in your mind. Some people don't know grief from garlic… Michael Lee West
“ Work and pray, live on hay,You'll get pie in the sky when you die.-Joe Hill, The Preacher and the Slave Michael Lee West
“ There is a sneakiness about girls that they keep hid under sweetness and pouting and crying. Michael Lee West
