Abigail Padgett > Quotes

“The way black women say "girl" can be magical. Frankly, I have no solid beliefs about the survival of consciousness after physical death. But if it's going to happen I know what I want to see after my trek toward the light. I want to see a black woman who will smile and say, "Girl....”
― Abigail Padgett, Blue

“I like having options, alternate lives unlived but always possible.”
― Abigail Padgett, The Paper Doll Museum

“Prisoners, slaves, women and children, the sick, weak, disabled, animals, the earth itself – all were fair game for the cruel sport of those who had power. It was wrong, it was evil, but it was a fact of life.”
― Abigail Padgett, An Unremembered Grave

“It occurred to me that soon I would need a scroll of butcher paper and a felt-tip pen to record the list of completely senseless things comprising my life. I would tape the scroll to the wall and conduct a focus group of one.”
― Abigail Padgett, Blue

“It occurred to Bo that Texas songs were always about the sky because there simply wasn't anything else. No hill, no mound, not even a ripple of earth to break the dizzying sweep of the eye toward infinity. “Flat,” she decided, was a term insufficient to the terrain. It was more than that. It was actually a negative pull, an inverted gasp of ground beneath a firmament so boundless it might threaten the sanity of even those who weren't already pushing the edge.”
― Abigail Padgett, Child of Silence