Melinda Haynes > Quotes

“Forget all the rules. Forget about being published. Write for yourself and celebrate writing.”
― Melinda Haynes

“And I said, ‘I’m thinkin’ I’ve wasted too much time thinkin’, is what I’m thinkin'.”
― Melinda Haynes, Mother of Pearl

“Ain't it a shame the body can't go where the heart lives.”
― Melinda Haynes

“The Negro on saxophone blew out a language older than English and the glasses on the tables trembled”
― Melinda Haynes, Mother of Pearl

“just cus your cat had kittens in the oven don't make em biscuits”
― Melinda Hayes

“The water rippled when he leaned in; he studied what he saw. Against a background of blue sky, there was his face, broad of forehead and overly long, and he was surprised at the new look of age on him. To everybody else, I must look ten years beyond twenty-seven, he thought, and it made him glad. Even had begun to fear gaps and what they might mean. Wide-spanning spaces between age and its weight of language and ability had begun to feel like easy reasons for saying good-bye. He saw inside the calm reflection a gull flying low over his head, braced by clouds drifting east toward Runnelstown.
Turning back, he walked north around moss-based trees and finally found her digging wild onions growing thick next to fern. With her back to him she said, "Tired does one of two things-either builds the soul or breaks the heart. Can't decide which it is right now. All I know is I'm tired.”
― Melinda Haynes, Mother of Pearl

“And though he has watched a decent age pass by, a man will sometimes still desire the world.”
― Melinda Haynes, Mother of Pearl

“Sometimes partial kindness kills a person as bad as partial knowin.' Judy said this while she hugged the dress. "But then sometimes partial kindness and partial knowin' is the two best things in the world.”
― Melinda Haynes, Mother of Pearl

“All he thinks while he studies pearlescent pigeons is this: I wish I knew how… I wish I knew… I ain’t ever gonna, but I wish I knew how it felt – (-to be free).”
― Melinda Haynes, Mother of Pearl

“She sat there enveloped in sadness, realizing that of all the words she had wanted to say and hear, she had not heard or said any of them.”
― Melinda Haynes, Willem's Field

“You said earlier you knew the color of hell. I just figured you had kinfolk somewhere as living proof.”
― Melinda Haynes, Chalktown

“Just wait until that husband of yours rolls over and goes to sleep without bothering to touch you in six months, Just wait until there's nothing at all between the sheets and you dry up and feel worthless and look in the mirror and begin to believe it's your fault he doesn't want you. Just wait until it dawns on you one day that the real reason he doesn't want you is because he doesn't want himself.”
― Melinda Haynes, Willem's Field

“There's not enough time spend between the sheet's to compensate the breach”
― Melinda Haynes

“Thinking those old sticks looked authoritative, somehow. Like something belonging to an ancient queen come ashore by mistake in a common land full of limits.”
― Melinda Haynes, Mother of Pearl

“Running to catch up, feeling like he was in a constant state of chasing a shadow, he felt a drop of rain hit him square on the back of the neck. The weight of it so heavy it felt like a rock.”
― Melinda Haynes, Mother of Pearl

“This one hear will never be easy, because he's never learned to be false.”
― Melinda Haynes, Willem's Field

“She felt ugly and unwanted, like a balding geriatric poodle out for a stroll, the leash held in the hand of someone who didn't really care about the dog, who had never even liked it in the first place, who probably couldn't wait until it was buried in the backyard underneath the magnolia tree.”
― Melinda Haynes, Willem's Field

“Partial kindness breaks the heart...”
― Melinda Haynes, Mother of Pearl