Mary Kay Andrews > Quotes

“Never, ever ask a former clergyman to say the blessing over a holiday dinner. Not if you like your dinner warm, anyway.”
― Mary Kay Andrews, Blue Christmas

“And that point is, it doesn't matter how long you've known somebody. People change. Or you don't really know them as well as you thought you did in the first place.”
― Mary Kay Andrews, Summer Rental

“You have more issues than National Geographic by
Austin LeFleur in Hissy Fit”
― Mary Kay Andrews (Author)

“I may be furious and sad about what happened with us, but that doesn't make me believe that what we had wasn't real. And it doesn't make me believe that I won't find something that real again.”
― Mary Kay Andrews, Summer Rental

“Don’t never depend on somebody else to take care of you, sugar. Trust in the Lord, and then you just take care of yourself, and things will work out fine.”
― Mary Kay Andrews, Little Bitty Lies

“Never trust a man who hollers at the help,”
― Mary Kay Andrews, The High Tide Club

“They’d like the world to think they’re hot snot on a gold platter. But really, they’re just cold boogers on a paper plate.”
― Mary Kay Andrews, Savannah Blues

“Sometimes the people we think we know the best are the ones with secrets we can't even fathom.”
― Mary Kay Andrews, The High Tide Club

“You don’t have to be Southern to have good manners. And you don’t have to be a Yankee to make a total ass of yourself.”
― Mary Kay Andrews, Save the Date

“Losing a parent, I guess it makes you realize none of us is gonna be immortal.”
― Mary Kay Andrews, The Weekenders

“Unfortunately, most of us end up with somebody who’s somewhere between Jed Clampett and Homer Simpson.”
― Mary Kay Andrews, Beach Town

“He’d died his blond hair purple in honor of his best friend’s wedding, and he wore skinny white jeans, a red shirt, and”
― Mary Kay Andrews, Save the Date

“It made perfect sense to me. My whole life I'd gone along with somebody else's plans. Not wanting to rock the boat and put myself first. After all, most of the time I didn't know what my own plans were. But the need for my own dream was screaming to get out of me.”
― Mary Kay Andrews, Savannah Blues

“Why was it, Whelan wondered, assholes only saw the light after the damage was done?”
― Mary Kay Andrews, Summers at the Saint

“A house is just a bunch of lumber and nails, Hattie. It’s just a thing. Never fall in love with anything that can’t love you back.”
― Mary Kay Andrews, The Homewreckers

“Doesn’t everyone, after they reach a certain age, think they want to die at some point in their life?”
― Mary Kay Andrews, Bright Lights, Big Christmas

“Old wounds. They faded, but they never really went away, did they?”
― Mary Kay Andrews, Spring Fever

“Alma? You had that sweet lady fired?”
― Mary Kay Andrews, Holiday Hideaway

“Sometimes you have to trust your heart, too. You give what you think the other person needs, and hope they know that you’re doing it out of love.”
― Mary Kay Andrews, Save the Date

“Don’t look over your shoulder. The past is past. Just try to get through it, and give yourself some grace.”
― Mary Kay Andrews, The Homewreckers

“In times like these, I think it's a good policy to hope for the best, but expect the worst.”
― Mary Kay Andrews, The Weekenders

“she felt the past come rushing back with a ferocity that nearly knocked her down. And it struck her, this was not just a flare-up she was experiencing, not just a bout of spring fever. This was full-blown passion.”
― Mary Kay Andrews, Spring Fever

“Maggy’s diagnosis earlier in the year with juvenile onset type 1 diabetes had thrown them”
― Mary Kay Andrews, The Weekenders

“Never fall in love with anything that can’t love you back.”
― Mary Kay Andrews, The Homewreckers

“My parents hated him. My friends hated him. I guess . . . I thought I could change him, somehow. You know? If I showed him what it was like to be really loved, maybe that would make him kinder, more understanding.”
― Mary Kay Andrews, Holiday Hideaway

“It was a closely held family”
― Mary Kay Andrews, The Weekenders

“know now that a clean balance sheet is the key to happiness.”
― Mary Kay Andrews, The Homewreckers

“truck driver, but mostly earning”
― Mary Kay Andrews, Spring Fever

“Murder?” Roo’s eyes shone with excitement. “Right here on Belle Isle?” “Roo!” Evelyn shook her head in exasperation. “For God’s sake, have you no sense of propriety?”
― Mary Kay Andrews, The Weekenders

“she found a worn and well-loved copy of The Night Before Christmas. She curled up in her armchair and found herself fantasizing what it might be like if it were just the two of them, cozy and snowbound, with herself in her kerchief and George in his cap, settled in for a long winter’s nap.”
― Mary Kay Andrews, Holiday Hideaway