Beth Ann

“Forever is composed of nows,” she says.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“on what we heard—” “Now don’t you be so confident, Mr. Jem, I ain’t ever seen any jury decide in favor of a colored man over a white man. . . .” But Jem took exception to Reverend Sykes, and we were subjected to a lengthy review of the evidence with Jem’s ideas on the law regarding rape: it wasn’t rape if she let you, but she had to be eighteen—in Alabama,”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“That’s really important in trying to understand shibui. It sounds simple, like a cliché, really; but it’s true: a woman is most beautiful when she is herself.”
― Elizabeth Berg, Once Upon a Time, There Was You

“I once spent an entire summer in Georgia with relatives who drank decaf. Worst summer of my life. Without caffeine, I didn't have the personality God gave a houseplant.”
― Sean Dietrich, Sean of the South: Whistling Dixie