Ninie Hammon > Quotes

“I think ‘me’ is a moving target, Bobo. Like you put a bunch of rocks in a kaleidoscope, and every time you turn it, the pieces look different, but it’s still the same rocks.”
― Ninie Hammon, The Memory Closet

“Don’t never underestimate the power of doin’ the right thing”
― Ninie Hammon, Five Days in May

“Some smells are universally revered. Coffee brewing. Bacon frying. Burning leaves. Baby powder. And sawdust.”
― Ninie Hammon, The Memory Closet

“Butterflies”
― Ninie Hammon, The Last Safe Place

“She put her face in her hands and tried to cry, like you want to throw up when you’s nauseated cause even though that’s awful, it feels better for a little while after. Gives you some relief. But Theresa’s hurt was too big right now to ’low her solace as simple and freeing as tears.”
― Ninie Hammon, The Knowing

“I move fast for a old man. If I’s gone live long enough for a walker, I’d need one with a airbag.”
― Ninie Hammon, The Last Safe Place

“Understand this—if you never understand anything else in your whole life—booze will take everything you have and then it will kill you.” He paused, leaned closer. “You work the steps or you die, Will. It’s that simple.”
― Ninie Hammon, The Unexplainable Collection

“Ever wonder who was the first person to see a cow and think, ‘I believe I’ll squeeze those dangly things and drink whatever comes out?’” Mikey”
― Ninie Hammon, The Knowing

“The current state of the world is testimony to the cowardice of the many and the futile courage of the few. Everywhere on the globe, evil thrives in the soil of denial, pruned by cynicism, fertilized by disbelief, watered by inaction.”
― Ninie Hammon, The Last Safe Place

“I’m so far out of my comfort zone UPS doesn’t even deliver here.”
― Ninie Hammon, The Knowing

“Princess was quiet, in that profound way she had that made silence more than the absence of noise, made it a positive force, an aura wrapped tight around her. Oran had the crazy notion that if he reached out his hand, he could touch it, and the silence would feel like ... warm smoke.”
― Ninie Hammon, Five Days in May

“That Sponge Bob Pants a children’s book, too? About a washrag to scrub the grease off a pot? That’s dumber’n a shovel.”
― Ninie Hammon, The Memory Closet

“Translucent memories, the kind that probably aren’t crisp and clear in anybody’s mind, formed in the swirling mist of my nothingness like an image on photographic paper gradually taking shape in a developing tray.”
― Ninie Hammon, Memory Closet

“That don’t make no more sense than sittin’ on the TV to watch the couch.”
― Ninie Hammon, The Memory Closet

“Daniel sensed a horrible, unthinkable but coming and the doors to a thousand fears flew open in his mind.”
― Ninie Hammon, The Knowing

“Then Jack turned to examine the children. They were clustered together, white from terror, some crying, some catatonic, all with a look on their faces he’d seen before, a look of vacant, hollow-eyed shock occasioned by horror way beyond a child’s capacity to process. He’d seen it on children’s faces in Kosovo and Somalia and Rwanda. An older woman who must have been the teacher’s aide stood in the center of them like Mother Goose and they clung to her skirt for comfort. She gazed at Jack with such profound wonder and gratitude, he was suddenly embarrassed.”
― Ninie Hammon, The Knowing

“whatever that was. I’m so far out of my comfort zone UPS doesn’t even deliver here.” He”
― Ninie Hammon, The Knowing

“Please, God, no. The words brought Emily up short. It was a prayer, and she hadn’t prayed since…she”
― Ninie Hammon, The Knowing

“It’s not so hard to leave a life if you don’t have nothing in it.”
― Ninie Hammon, Five Days in May

“Jack said that maybe the more my life’s filled up with live people, the less I’ll think about the ones that’s dead. She made a humph sound in her throat. I told him that was a load of crap. The”
― Ninie Hammon, The Reckoning

“Can't listen to scared! It lies. Scared lies and mad lies and hate lies. But love don't lie.”
― Ninie Hammon, Five Days in May

“Theo was the only one of the three of them who wasn’t afraid. Once you’d done your living, played the parts you’s assigned, wasn’t no reason to be afraid.”
― Ninie Hammon, The Last Safe Place

“Never explain. Your friends don’t need it and your enemies won’t believe it anyway.’ Take your best shot.” She”
― Ninie Hammon, Five Days in May

“The band fell apart because of the absence of his presence; her marriage fell apart because of the presence of his absence.”
― Ninie Hammon, The Last Safe Place

“Tornado watches were as common in springtime Oklahoma as Catholics at a fish fry. Jonas”
― Ninie Hammon, Five Days in May

“The Bible says you got to forgive seven times seventy times, and folks think that means forgivin’ that many hurts. But that ain’t it a-tall. What it means is that it takes that many times and more to forgive one hurt, ’cause you got to do it over and over, ever day. Until one day, the forgiveness comes down outta your head—outta your mouth where you been sayin’ it but not meanin’ it—and it lands in your heart.”
― Ninie Hammon, The Unexplainable Collection

“Bobo eyed me, up and down. “So that’s why you got that stuff all over your face.” “That ‘stuff’ is makeup, Bobo. If I don’t wear it, I look like a crash dummy.” I started toward the porch. “And”
― Ninie Hammon, The Memory Closet

“white salad—cherries, pineapple and bananas in a fluffy mixture of Cool Whip, cream cheese and sour cream.”
― Ninie Hammon, Home Grown

“If you’re holding your breath waiting for me to feel sorry for you, sweetheart,” he said aloud, “you may now resume your regularly scheduled respirations.”
― Ninie Hammon, The Last Safe Place

“Imagine how deep the ocean would be if it wasn’t full of sponges.”
― Ninie Hammon, The Last Safe Place