Kaye Gibbons > Quotes

“I might be confused sometimes in my head but it is not something you need to talk about. Before you can talk you have to line it all up in order and I had rather just let it swirl around until I am too tired to think. You just let the motion in your head wear you out. Never think about it. You just make a bigger mess that way.”
― Kaye Gibbons, Ellen Foster

“It took me a long time to learn that mistakes aren't good or bad,
they're just mistakes, and you clean them up and go on.”
― Kaye Gibbons, A Virtuous Woman

“You’ll find your one-in-a-million. But you’re sharp enough to know there’s no point in sludging through the first nine hundred, ninety-nine thousand, and ninety-nine to get to him.”
― Kaye Gibbons, Charms for the Easy Life

“Have you ever felt like you could cry because you know you just heard the most important thing anybody in the world could have spoke at that second?”
― Kaye Gibbons, Ellen Foster

“I could lay here and read all night. I am not able to fall asleep without reading. You have the time when your brain has nothing to do so it rambles. I fool my brain out of that by making it read until it shuts off. I just think it is best to do something right up until you fall asleep.”
― Kaye Gibbons, Ellen Foster

“I could wake her up and ask have you ever been to the ocean? but I already know that answer. She has not. You can tell. It would humble you I whisper to her sleeping if you for one time stood by something stronger than yourself.”
― Kaye Gibbons, Ellen Foster

“The fact that he had foamed at the mouth immediately upon dying, indicated that he had a great back jam of wishes and desires and truths that were never spoken...out bubbled all the words he had swallowed when he was alive.”
― Kaye Gibbons, Charms for the Easy Life

“I am a great believer in variations on the routine.”
― Kaye Gibbons, Charms for the Easy Life

“Oh, it's no crime to want and need somebody to love and to be loved by and to go and do what you need to do to have that, but its certainly a pity when you want it so badly you'll let it be anybody.”
― Kaye Gibbons, A Virtuous Woman

“This has been such a glorious afternoon -- my heart would not weep if I did not live to see another.”
― Kaye Gibbons, On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon

“But they get some comfort out of the made up stories. And if that helps them get along maybe I should not poke fun.”
― Kaye Gibbons, Ellen Foster

“Folks do not want to see a body disappear before their very eyes. Not me at least.”
― Kaye Gibbons, Ellen Foster

“Unless society came out past Flat Rock Crossroads, kept on past Booker T. High School, hung two rights, a left, turned in on Milk Farm Road and found Roland plowing a tobacco field, jerked him off the tractor, warped him and set him back up there without anybody riding by and noticing, blame can't be laid on society.”
― Kaye Gibbons, A Virtuous Woman

“You can rest with me until somebody comes to get you. We will not say anything. We can rest.”
― Kaye Gibbons, Ellen Foster

“I've read two books a week for 30 years....I'm satisfied I know everything.”
― Kaye Gibbons

“When I was little I would think of ways to kill my daddy. I would figure out this or that way and run it down through my head until it got easy.

The way I liked best was letting go a poisonous spider in his bed. It would bite him and he'd be dead and swollen up and I would shudder to find him so. Of course I would call the rescue squad and tell them to come quick something's the matter with my daddy. When they come in the house I'm all in a state of shock and just don't know how to act what with two colored boys heaving my dead daddy onto a roller cot. I just stand in the door and look like I'm shaking all over.

But I did not kill my daddy. He drank his own self to death the year after the County moved me out. I heard how they found him shut up in the house dead and everything. Next thing I know he's in the ground and the house is rented out to a family of four.

All I did was wish him dead real hard every now and then. All I can say for a fact that I am better off now than when he was alive.”
― Kaye Gibbons, Ellen Foster

“The man in her dream would ride up and surprise her on his horse…saying her beauty pierced such a great place in his heart.”
― Kaye Gibbons, A Cure for Dreams

“You see if you tell yourself the same tale over and over again enough times then the tellings become separate stories and you will generally fool yourself into forgetting you started with one solitary season out of your life.”
― Kaye Gibbons, Ellen Foster

“Someone once told me that writing is an act of faith. Another person told me that forgiving is also an act of faith. That’s true. I think both heal, both are arts. What a fine thing it is to do both at once.”
― Kaye Gibbons, Ellen Foster

“I figure I made out pretty good considering the rest of my family is either dead or crazy.”
― Kaye Gibbons, Ellen Foster

“In closing, I hope everything helps show that I wouldn’t be a fade-out or a person who turns to think to drink or dope when things get tough. I believe that anything is possible if you have the combination of love for what you’re doing and the will to sit down and not get up until it’s done….”
― Kaye Gibbons, The Life All Around Me By Ellen Foster

“And all this time I thought I had the hardest row to hoe.”
― Kaye Gibbons, Ellen Foster

“You have to be so careful. You can't ever just throw words out. They have to land somewhere.”
― Kaye Gibbons, A Virtuous Woman

“That's all my grandfather was guilty of, fear, faith in his words, but that was a high crime in her eyes. That's all Jack was guilty of that day, but I've lived with him a good while and I believe I understand him. Sometimes it might take an afternoon or evening of being here in this kitchen alone, thinking, but I can usually come to see his reasons through his ways. And half the job of finding peace is finding understanding. Don't you believe it to be so?”
― Kaye Gibbons, A Virtuous Woman

“They’ve been married for ten years and no trace of love has rubbed off, not a trace. I wouldn’t know what to do with a man like that. I wouldn’t know what to do with a man who did more than show up for meals. I wonder where she found him.”
― Kaye Gibbons, A Cure for Dreams

“She told me the only way I would be happy on Milk Farm Road with my mother would be to turn off the radio. This would eliminate a great deal of temptation.”
― Kaye Gibbons, A Cure for Dreams

“My mother told me a million times that Ireland and the Irish people were special, and that the O'Cadhain family in particular was the most blessed of all because it had been imposed upon without cease since the dawn it sprung up in Galway. For centuries they had been in training to have nothing, so everything was more or less working perfectly according to God's plan.”
― Kaye Gibbons, A Cure for Dreams

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“hear your man got cut real bad, might not make it.” She waited for me to touch her back or maybe break down, but I didn’t. I was so ticked off all I could say to her was, “That’s what they tell me.” She snapped her hand off me and told me it seemed like a woman would stand by her man, irregardless, and it seemed like that woman would be especially true after something like this, irregardless. I guess she meant regardless of the fact that he was a known bastard. But she broke stride with me and fell in with her friends, and I could hear her tell them how insensitive I was and with John Woodrow “laid up in the hospital, cut up and about to hardly make it.” Then one of the women said that was a shame, and she proceeded to tell them about how her sister nursed her husband after a bad wreck last year. She said the man’s face was sliced this way and that and his wife stayed right by him, feeding him through a straw, picking glass slivers from his lips. The woman told the”
― Kaye Gibbons, A Virtuous Woman: A Novel

“I said to myself Dora, let me tell you a thing or two. There is no Santa Claus. You cannot always count on getting everything you want. And when you wake up that day and Santa has not laid out everything you dreamed of or he might have missed your house completely then you have to be brave and you can come to me and we can talk.”
― Kaye Gibbons, Ellen Foster