Debbie Jackson

“Everything. The wind you hear is the same wind that has always blown. The rain that falls is the same rain. Over and over, round and round, like a giant circle. The wind and the waves have been present since time began. The rocks and stars too. But the rocks don’t speak, and the stars are too far away to tell us what they know.”
― Amy Harmon, What the Wind Knows

“I wept for my grandfather and wept for a past that was dead, and I felt forsaken when the wind refused to whisk me away.”
― Amy Harmon, What the Wind Knows

“I’m telling you, the cut’s 50 percent, not a penny more, three dollars a week for board, five for the upfront,”
― Kathryn Stockett, The Calamity Club

“I didn’t have to wonder much what’d enlightened me—in a few weeks, I’d fallen in love with a married man, had my eyebrows plucked, started a dance club when my sister was out of town, and was getting dropped off at church by five prostitutes.”
― Kathryn Stockett, The Calamity Club