Leah Weiss > Quotes

“She's finding out she don't know much, and that's gonna make her feel lost for a spell. All her book smarts is worth a handful of nothing when it comes to real truths.”
― Leah Weiss, If the Creek Don't Rise

“Times like these I wonder if I ever been happy. From the start there's been a film of dingy on my days.... I see some folks walk easy and carry peace on their shoulders, but I been chained to a iron life.”
― Leah Weiss, If the Creek Don't Rise

“If you don’t believe in God Almighty, Maker of Heaven and Earth, before you read National Geographic, you will after.”
― Leah Weiss, If the Creek Don't Rise

“Sleep is gonna come. It always does but so do rememberings. Sometimes they take me places I don't want to go. Sometimes they take me places I don't want to leave.”
― Leah Weiss, If the Creek Don't Rise

“I used to pick wildflowers to bring cheer indoors. Prudence would turn right around and throw them out. Said, “If God wanted flowers in a jar, He’d a planted em there.”
― Leah Weiss, If the Creek Don't Rise

“The good and bad of me is that I see blessings most every day in every way. Even when it’s a speck that shines in a gray sea of sad. It’s how my heart looks at things.”
― Leah Weiss, If the Creek Don't Rise

“What’s all them blue jars for?” I whisper, “Vicks VapoRub. Daddy uses it for everything. Colds, bug bites, cuts, bee stings, dry skin, bruises, headaches, sore muscles.”
― Leah Weiss, All the Little Hopes

“I go to the cupboard. I open the doors to a lacquered red interior the color of the Chinese music box in Aunt Fanniebelle’s curio cabinet. Out drifts lemon, mint, salt, vinegar, and the metallic whiff of blood. In the middle is a line of matching bottles labeled Stump, Ditch, Willow, Lightning, and Urine. Baskets of tiny silk bags tied with ribbons and dried roots are in orderly rows.”
― Leah Weiss, All the Little Hopes

“I first heard about a murder of crows at seminary. I came upon many poetic and odd phrases found in literature and mentally filed them away: an ostentation of peacocks, a parliament of owls, a knot of frogs, and a skulk of foxes. My favorite is the crows.”
― Leah Weiss, If the Creek Don't Rise

“It’s strange how some folks tell a tale. They go round and round cause the story is a little biddy thing that needs a lot of fluff to make it big enough to be told in the first place. I hate this part of gossiping.”
― Leah Weiss, If the Creek Don't Rise

“What does evil look like to crows from up in the sky? They're brave enough to play hide-and-seek with the dead.”
― Leah Weiss, If the Creek Don't Rise

“They go round and round cause the story is a little biddy thing that needs a lot of fluff to make it big enough to be told in the first place.”
― Leah Weiss, If the Creek Don't Rise

“Managed to fix a proper cup of tea this morning, so all is right in the world.”
― Leah Weiss, If the Creek Don't Rise

“Out drifts lemon, mint, salt, vinegar, and the metallic whiff of blood. In the middle is a line of matching bottles labeled Stump, Ditch, Willow, Lightning, and Urine. Baskets of tiny silk bags tied with ribbons and dried roots are in orderly rows.”
― Leah Weiss, All the Little Hopes

“God must have hated womankind something terrible to punish her month after month, and leave the mark of blood as her shame.”
― Leah Weiss, If the Creek Don't Rise

“I coulda told her he was looking for easy and a woman's life is hard, but she don't ask.”
― Leah Weiss, If the Creek Don't Rise

“I don't believe or disbelieve in your god or your devil. I simply have little use for church dogmas and man-made rituals that stifle people through fear and superstition.”
― Leah Weiss, If the Creek Don't Rise

“Sad is the person who stops being a student.”
― Leah Weiss, If the Creek Don't Rise

“We’ll be keeping the two blue stars in our window representing our men in harm’s way.”
― Leah Weiss, All the Little Hopes

“I understand the relief your faith provides. You think it is the foundation for hope and comfort. The cause and effect you believe in are sin and reformation. Fear plays a big part in encouraging people to take the high road. I don’t believe faith or fear lifts people to a better life. The cause and effect I believe in are education and opportunity. Those actions and goals elicit positive change. A god monitoring my days seems naive at best and dangerous at worst.”
― Leah Weiss, If the Creek Don't Rise

“Miss Shaw’s world hasn’t been complicated by raw truths that defy science or logic, and can only be understood by faith.”
― Leah Weiss, If the Creek Don't Rise

“He checks his teeth in the mirror, flattens a cowlick with spit, and opens the door. The hinge creaks as he rolls out.”
― Leah Weiss, All the Little Hopes

“You take one cup of softened butter and one cup of milk, two cups of sugar, threes cups of self-rising flour, and four eggs. One of the three-layer cakes has white icing and the other caramel. After”
― Leah Weiss, All the Little Hopes

“My punishment is exile from my homeland—like the Nation of Israelites in the Old Testament. It’s what happens when you disobey and disrespect. The Lord keeps score. Exile is worse than being dead or struck blind. I hold back my tears. I gotta turn brave.”
― Leah Weiss, All the Little Hopes

“wolpertinger.”
― Leah Weiss, All the Little Hopes

“sometimes I wonder if Irene’s heart is too small. She isn’t very amiable”
― Leah Weiss, All the Little Hopes

“Does that come to about a thousand pounds of beeswax and eight thousand pounds of honey a year?”
― Leah Weiss, All the Little Hopes

“Oh, Lordy, ma’am.” He clears his throat. “I’m sorry I scared you thinking that way, seeing this government car and all. No, ma’am. I bring good news.” Mama’s body softens,”
― Leah Weiss, All the Little Hopes

“How can we see differently what’s right in front of us?”
― Leah Weiss, The Creek, The Crone, and the Crow

“You stick dough in hair that red, it woulda baked into a biscuit.”
― Leah Weiss, If the Creek Don't Rise