Lisa Patton > Quotes

“My people always tol' me, 'You can stay in Hell a little while, long as you know you're gettin' out.”
― Lisa Patton, Whistlin' Dixie in a Nor'easter

“Life has thrown you a curveball, baby. But it don't mean you need to throw all you know out the winda' neither. The Lawd is gonna give you another chance at love but you must be smart about it.”
― Lisa Patton, Yankee Doodle Dixie

“taken the time to study the surroundings.”
― Lisa Patton, Whistlin' Dixie in a Nor'easter: A Novel

“Nobody ever told me you can't bury somebody up North in the wintertime.”
― Lisa Patton, Whistlin' Dixie in a Nor'easter

“Some people go their whole lives with their eyes closed. They live in darkness and never see light. They never see the error of their ways.”
― Lisa Patton, Rush

“You can’t force someone into wanting to know the good things in your life. They either do or they don’t.”
― Lisa Patton, Kissing the Sky

“Like atoms and molecules”
― Lisa Patton, Kissing the Sky

“filled with the same spirit of love. And of peace. And of hope.”
― Lisa Patton, Kissing the Sky

“It’s a great irony. We creative people tend to be highly sensitive. Yet we are drawn to the jobs that dish out the most criticism.”
― Lisa Patton, Kissing the Sky

“Beauty is not about having a perfect face. It’s about the way you love others and how you make them feel.”
― Lisa Patton, Kissing the Sky

“I know exactly what that’s like”
― Lisa Patton, Kissing the Sky

“Our “epic escapade,” as we had dubbed it, was a nineteen-hour car ride, eleven hundred miles from Memphis, Tennessee, to Bethel, New York. Originally the festival was to be held in Wallkill, New York, but they moved it at the last minute. Thank God Livy had heard the news. Otherwise we would have driven another hour.”
― Lisa Patton, Kissing the Sky

“A girl who”
― Lisa Patton, Kissing the Sky

“I’ve changed my mind. I’m going with you to Woodstock.”
― Lisa Patton, Kissing the Sky

“Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself. It’s the place where healing starts.”
― Lisa Patton, Kissing the Sky

“It doesn't take a wizard to figure out the last thing a girl should do is go running hundreds of miles away from home to Vermont just because a man asks her to do so.”
― Lisa Patton, Yankee Doodle Dixie

“Grandmothers don’t need to know everything.”
― Lisa Patton, Kissing the Sky