“ Sometimes you have to travel back in time, skirting the obstacles, in order to love someone. Frances Mayes
“ I can never do justice to the great feeling of amazement and encouragement I felt when, perhaps for the first time in American history, white citizens of a Southern state banded together to come to Se… Amelia Boynton Robinson
“ If terrorists are already on our southern border, a national-security failure has already occurred. Mike Pompeo
“ Don’t pack your bags just yet, stay awhile,Don't try to run away to higher ground,You're in my twisted clouds of sad misfortune,And you are such an entertaining crowd!(I’ve never had such cheerful toy… Rebecca McNutt
“ As a child, I ate up the image Carl strived to portray: An inspirational rags-to-riches tale of a go-getter emerging the hell of his sulfur-scented, Podunk Texas upbringing. With a community college d… Magda Young
“ But no one could say he hadn't gotten even. He could not count the field women whom he had sexually degraded and demoralized and in whom he had left his seed so their bastard children would be a daily… James Lee Burke
“ {Summertime she speaks of winter, she eats ham, but speaks of beef, got a good man but, flirts with another. She might as well go to hell, cause she ain't gonna be happy in heaven either!} Nancy B. Brewer
“ There was a time when a new deputy tried to teach Mr. Fruit about the difference between a red and a green light, but Mr. Fruit had resisted all efforts to reorder what he had been doing perfectly wel… Pat Conroy
“ This town of churches and dreams; this town I thought I would lose myself in, with its backward ways and winding roads leading to nowhere; but, I found myself instead. -Magic in the Backyard (excerpt… Kellie Elmore
“ It occurred to me almost constantly in the South that had I lived there I would have been an eccentric and full of anger, and I wondered what form the anger would have taken. Would I have taken up cau… Joan Didion
“ Every Wednesday Angela Belle came to town. And every Wednesday Dr. Montgomery accidentally ran into her. That Doc sat by the diner window for thirty minutes picking at a piece of pie until she rounded… Paula Wall
“ The child came to a stop beside her mother and stared up at her face as if she had never seen it before. It was the face of the new misery she felt, but on her mother it looked old and it looked as if… Flannery O'Connor
“ The curtains were not yet drawn and with the moonlight spreading across the room, I could see clearly. I undressed and slipped a soft cotton gown over my naked body. I pulled the blanket off the foot… Nancy B. Brewer
“ Reykjavik has a mixture of southern and northern mentality. There's a laid-back, relaxed attitude but also the feeling things are going to get done. John Grant
“ Fincher was the kind of Southerner who will try to address you through a web of deep and antic southernness, and who assumes every body in earshot knows all about his parents and history and wants to… Richard Ford
