Gail Shepherd > Quotes

“My so-called bedroom has purple floral wallpaper and a polished secretary desk with claw feet like a monster. It has a fireplace that looks like it hasn't been lit for two hundred years. Clear as day, no child has ever inhabited that room. I don't see why I have to be the courageous pioneer.”
― Gail Shepherd, The True History of Lyndie B. Hawkins

“You'd best take care, what you lend your heart to.”
― Gail Shepherd, The True History of Lyndie B. Hawkins

“Like a lot of people, I was mad at the guys who came back from Vietnam. I didn't realize how tough they had it. I thought war, bad. Soldiers, bad, like it was so simple, you know? I wanted to prove my own point of view." She laughs a little but with no happiness. "Things are more complicated than that. Now I know exactly how hard it was for them. What they had inside that they were trying to keep hold of. And the hurt they feel, it never goes away.”
― Gail Shepherd, The True History of Lyndie B. Hawkins