Deborah Johnson > Quotes

“Outside, it was coming on night. Twilight. “The magic time,” his daddy called it, “the make-a-wish moment between the dark and the light.”
― Deborah Johnson, The Secret of Magic

“You will find that the past is still very much alive down here.”
― Deborah Johnson, The Secret of Magic

“And the dusk, the gritty Southern grayness of it, its harsh gathering, stopped Joe Howard from seeing out beyond the solitude of his own reflection, a soldier’s reflection: dark hair, a trimmed mustache, eyes he didn’t bother looking into, and farther down from them, the ghostly shadow of a khaki uniform, of lieutenant’s bars and a medal. There was no brain, no blood, no bone, no friend called L. C. Hoover sprayed all over this Joe Howard Wilson—at least not anymore.”
― Deborah Johnson, The Secret of Magic

“Regina read all this, thinking with each sentence she'd put the book down. But a sentence became a paragraph, which flowed on into a page, two pages, a chapter, more.”
― Deborah Johnson, The Secret of Magic

“I choose my battles wisely you see
Sometimes the fight is just not met to be
I pick only the ones I know I can win
And all others I just smartly end”
― Deborah Johnson

“When people give one star ratings, they seem to be trying to make a point. In my opinion, one star ratings don't make a constructive point. They are just unfair put downs to creativity.”
― Deborah Johnson

“She had a beautiful voice, slow, rich, and deep, a voice that thoroughly frosted its phrases and laid them out like so many carmel cakes.”
― Deborah Johnson, The Secret of Magic

“I act strictly according to the way I feel, my intuition. Miss Melba Obrenski”
― Deborah Johnson, The Air Between Us