Dee > Dee's Quotes

“Hail to thee Alabama, you verdant trollop.”
― Joshilyn Jackson, Gods in Alabama

“Consciously, she thought she had her feelings for him licked; subconsciously, every time she thought about him, it was as though someone stumbling around inside her head had kicked over a bucket of electric eels.”
― John Ramsey Miller, The Last Family: A Novel

“Everything happens for a reason, but that doesn't mean there's a point.”
― Sue Grafton, C is for Corpse

“Is that a bulletproof vest? See, now that's so insulting. That's like saying I'm not smart enough to shoot you in the head."
Eddie DeChooch”
― Janet Evanovich, Seven Up

“He [Ranger] stopped in front of my parents' house, and we both looked to the door. My mother and my grandmother were standing there, watching us.
"I'm not sure I feel comfortable about the way your grandma looks at me," Ranger said.
[Stephanie] "She wants to see you naked."
"I wish you hadn't told me that, babe."
"Everyone I know wants to see you naked."
"And you?"
"Never crossed my mind." I held my breath when I said it, and I hoped God wouldn't stike me down dead for lying.”
― Janet Evanovich, Hard Eight

“People who are strangers to liquor are incapable of talking about literature.”
― Mo Yan

“Pretending to be 'normal' is a lot harder than you think.”
― Sue Grafton, F is for Fugitive

“Watson. Come at once if convenient. If inconvenient, come all the same.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, Adventure of the Creeping Man

“Are you a politician or does lying just run in your family?”
― Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

“My friends scoffed at my anxiety and said dumb things like, 'Fifty is the new forty!' Which just made me realize that there are a whole lot of other people who suck at math as bad as I do. No. Fifty is fifty.”
― Celia Rivenbark, You Can't Drink All Day If You Don't Start in the Morning

“This is the silliest thing I've heard since the cat yoga craze a couple of years ago. I went right out and bought a cat yoga instruction book and tiny terry-cloth headband and renamed my girl cat 'Olive Neutered John,' which she didn't think was funny. Cats have no sense of humor.”
― Celia Rivenbark, You Can't Drink All Day If You Don't Start in the Morning

“All true readers have a book, a moment when real life is never going to be able to compete with fiction again.”
― Kate Morton, The Distant Hours

“Nighttime is different. Things are otherwise when the world is black. Insecurities and hurts, anxieties and fears grow teeth at night.”
― Kate Morton, The Distant Hours

“Women clearly felt things more deeply: they read sub-text where men saw only white space.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Castaways

“Sometimes you regret the things you do, but they're over and done. Regretting the things you didn't do is tougher because they're still out there, haunting you with the what ifs.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Matchmaker

“A garden is not a matter of life or death. It is far more important than that.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Rumor -- Free Preview -- The First 11 Chapters