Southern Accent Quotes

“Louise Clark's southern accent was as thick as hominy grits. No one else in the Philadelphia branch of her family had such an accent. Her mother and father had dropped theirs as soon as they crossed the Pennsylvania state line.”
― Fran Ross, Oreo

“If I hear a consonant I look around.”
― Harper Lee

“She seemed to be able to turn the accent on and off. She tended to turn it on for comforting people, and for threatening to kill them.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower

“She loved people's accents here---she always had. The way everybody managed to say the word y'all in the middle of pronouncing Charleston. Slow as the pace of the river but refined as British tea.”
― Ashley Clark, Paint and Nectar