Jackie Weger > Quotes

“mouth,”
― Jackie Weger, Finding Home

“mattress.”
― Jackie Weger, Finding Home

“Hell is where I’m going. Crazy is where I’m at.”
― Jackie Weger, Eye of the Beholder

“That’s it exactly—a celebration of fate. Whichever way fate takes us—good or bad, celebrate it. Thank you for getting it.”
― Jackie Weger, No Perfect Secret

“good”
― Jackie Weger, Finding Home

“hastened as she approached”
― Jackie Weger, Finding Home

“God made me a woman. You got problems with that, you take it up with Him.”
― Jackie Weger, Finding Home

“There must be a Neanderthal somewhere in your ancestry,” she said, a little on the testy side. “But don’t give it a thought; I’ll survive.” “I should hope so. It’d be a shame if you didn’t.” His voice was vibrant, accented heavily on interior syllables, Southern fashion. He could probably make it do anything.”
― Jackie Weger, No Perfect Fate

“approached her truck parked in the lee of the building near the big trash compactor. She’d had to find a spot away from prying eyes because she couldn’t trust Maydean and Willie-Boy to behave”
― Jackie Weger, Finding Home

“America”
― Jackie Weger, Finding Home

“There were candy shops, ice-cream parlors, dress shops, gold shops, shoe shops, toy shops, beauty shops, pet stores, bookstores, and department stores”
― Jackie Weger, Finding Home

“Did you get work?” he asked. “Not yet,” Phoebe said, brushing off the fact that the interviewer had insulted her down to muscle and bone. “I didn’t want that old job nohow. Dern it, Maydean. I told you not to mess with that mirror, didn’t I?” Twelve-year-old Maydean flounced. It took her whole body to do it. “How much money we got left, Phoebe? I’m hungry.” Phoebe didn’t want to think about money. Or buying food. Or where they were going to sleep that night. She reached up, adjusting the mirror. “We’ll eat when I get hungry.” “You never get hungry! And you’re never gonna get no job, either. You’re too”
― Jackie Weger, Finding Home

“she approached her truck parked in the lee of the building near the big trash compactor”
― Jackie Weger, Finding Home

“Phoebe didn’t want to think about money. Or buying food.”
― Jackie Weger, Finding Home

“In bad times my mom always says, ‘we’ll get through this one cheerful minute at a time.’ Anticipate something nice.”
― Jackie Weger, No Perfect Secret

“Nope,”
― Jackie Weger, Eye of the Beholder

“They had a sweet fishy smell that”
― Jackie Weger, Finding Home

“brought a”
― Jackie Weger, Finding Home

“But her good heart went to pounding like a jack- hammer, speeding so that she felt compelled to clutch her chest to slow it down. The idea of pairing up with Gage Morgan wouldn’t go away.”
― Jackie Weger, Eye of the Beholder

“First chance she got she was going to figure out how to bed him. That’d make him sit up and take notice. She spun away and sallied into Shambeau’s.”
― Jackie Weger, Finding Home

“Finding”
― Jackie Weger, Finding Home

“Know this: there’s not a woman in the world that can best me.”
― Jackie Weger, Finding Home

“His eyes were dark, deep-set, and thick-lashed. Sparking eyes, Phoebe thought. Most likely he used them to advantage on women. The idea made her feel an odd fluttering in her stomach. Had she been able to snag a man like him back home, why her whole family would still be together.”
― Jackie Weger, Finding Home

“Phoebe’s pace hastened as she approached her truck parked in the lee of the building near the big trash compactor. She’d had to find a spot away from prying eyes because she couldn’t trust Maydean and Willie-Boy to behave without her standing over them. Like now, she noted, discovering Willie-Boy hanging out the window.”
― Jackie Weger, Finding Home

“Phoebe didn’t know where all this was leading. That the girl was troubled was plain. Later she could worry on the child. Just now, getting settled was the main thing. She looked up at the ceiling. Lor, but having a roof above one’s head was a precious thing. From somewhere at the other end of the rambling old house, Gage Morgan called for his daughter.”
― Jackie Weger, Eye of the Beholder

“The noise brought Gage to the kitchen. “What’s all the clatter in here?” Phoebe sniffed. “What clatter? I don’t hear any clatter.” He cocked a brow. “You probably have the ships out in the channel thinking they’re picking up distress signals.”
― Jackie Weger, Finding Home

“She said God lined our souls with laughter so a person would know that no matter how dark the night, the sun was coming up on a new day. We’re each of us responsible for our own happiness, Anna—it’s not something you can put off on another person.”
― Jackie Weger, No Perfect Secret

“Phoebe watched the man emerge. Labeling him giant wasn’t far wrong.”
― Jackie Weger, Eye of the Beholder

“I got somethin’ on my mind.” “Uh oh.” “Don’t take on so. It’s just you know all about the Hawleys all the way back to Cuthbert and I don’t know about your folks.” He smiled. Phoebe closed her eyes against the pull of his kissin’ lips. “Ah. You’re worried a little Morgan might dilute Hawley blood and Hawley pride.” “No, I ain’t. I’m lettin’ up on Hawley pride. I let it get in the way of my good sense and almost lost you.” Phoebe gave in and sat on the sofa, snuggling”
― Jackie Weger, Finding Home

“What most people think is the truth, is what they believe.”
― Jackie Weger, The House on Persimmon Road