Jo-Ann Mapson > Quotes

“A willingness to lose one's self in a story was the first step to learning compassion, to appreciating other cultures, to realizing what possibilities the world held for people who kept at life despite the odds.”
― Jo-Ann Mapson, Solomon's Oak

“Sleep is just a good idea. I bow to the god caffeine.”
― Jo-Ann Mapson, Solomon's Oak

“It’s my belief that animals can help a human being travel to the wounds of childhood. The best part is, once you go there, you can fix things. Get on with life.”
― Jo-Ann Mapson, Solomon's Oak

“Mothers are only human, you turn it over to God and then you just wing it.”
― Jo Ann Mapson

“She knew for a fact that being left-handed automatically made you special.
Marie Curie, Albert Einstein, Linus Pauling, and Albert Schweitzer were all left-handed. Of course, no believable scientific theory could rest on such a small group of people. When Lindsay probed further, however, more proof emerged. Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, M.C. Escher, Mark Twain, Hans Christian Andersen, Lewis Carrol, H.G. Wells, Eudora Welty, and Jessamyn West- all lefties. The lack of women in her research had initially bothered her until she mentioned it to Allegra. "Chalk that up to male chauvinism," she said. "Lots of left-handed women were geniuses. Janis Joplin was. All it means is that the macho-man researchers didn't bother asking.”
― Jo-Ann Mapson, The Owl & Moon Cafe

“Juniper laughed for real, but one of those fake smiles he considered a plague of the Caucasian race followed. If you’re sad, be sad, he wanted to say.”
― Jo-Ann Mapson, Solomon's Oak

“Oh, Mama,” I said. “What if I don’t live that long?” My mother didn’t hesitate one second. “By hook or by crook, you will. Having children only increases your grip on the world. It’s like reading a thriller. You can’t put it down because you have to know how the story turns out.”
― Jo-Ann Mapson, Along Came Mary

“Glory sipped her second glass of red wine, impatient for the slight buzz that made her edges blur.”
― Jo-Ann Mapson, Solomon's Oak

“Women hoped harder than men, he thought, sometimes hard enough to change the outcome of things.”
― Jo-Ann Mapson, Goodbye, Earl: A Bad Girl Creek Novel

“What ever was fair? What ever is? You put one foot in front of the other and you walk through all of it. And if you’re lucky, like I am, on either side, you plant flowers.”
― Jo-Ann Mapson, Bad Girl Creek

“The Owl & Moon would never lack for customers. If a person came in for Chocolate Bomb cookies for her daughter's birthday, while she waited to have them boxed she'd smell the paper-thin rosemary-garlic Cheese Pennies, and pick up two dozen. Then she'd ask for a taste of the gleaming slab of Chocolate Cherry Thunder fudge.”
― Jo-Ann Mapson, The Owl & Moon Cafe

“Among items in the glass cold case were cheesecake, marzipan candies, The Owl & Moon's famous Chocolate Cherry Thunder fudge, and a round of sharp cheddar for the apple tarts. The nonrefrigerated case held all manner of pastries, sweet rolls, and berry pies. When the buckwheat rolls came out of the oven they went directly into pink boxes tied with kite string.”
― Jo-Ann Mapson, The Owl & Moon Cafe