Peggy Evans

“They fell asleep smiling. It is to erase the fixed smiles of sleeping couples that Satan trained roosters to crow at five in the morning.”
― Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume

“Madame Lily Devalier always asked "Where are you?" in a way that insinuated that there were only two places on earth one could be: New Orleans and somewhere ridiculous.”
― Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume

“Fear limits love”
― Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume

“what bothers me today is the lack of, well, i guess you'd call it authentic experience. so much is a sham. so much is artificial, synthetic, watered-down, and standardized...we're standardizing people, their goals, their ideas. the sham is everywhere.”
― Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume