Lindsey Rogers Cook > Quotes

“Sarcasm and passive-aggression, two tenets of Southern speech, are difficult for non-native speakers. Bless their hearts.”
― Lindsey Rogers Cook, Learning to Speak Southern

“Outsiders say the South is a matriarchal society, so it’s fitting that Southern women are the true masters at telling stories. Their daughters pick up this knowledge like rules passed down in a sacred book.”
― Lindsey Rogers Cook, How To Bury Your Brother

“Henry Hardware would be hers the way a church belongs to the pastor's wife, which is not at all.”
― Lindsey Rogers Cook, Learning to Speak Southern

“But regret, it will eat you up and create a hole you can’t fill, you know?”
― Lindsey Rogers Cook, How To Bury Your Brother

“Down South, we don’t call it lying though. That would be too negative, that wouldn’t be godly! Oh, no. In the South, we call it “telling stories.”
― Lindsey Rogers Cook, How To Bury Your Brother