quotes by Kaye Gibbons
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"It took me a long time to learn that mistakes aren't good or bad,
they're just mistakes, and you clean them up and go on.
From 'A Virtuous Woman'."
— Kaye Gibbons
they're just mistakes, and you clean them up and go on.
From 'A Virtuous Woman'."
— Kaye Gibbons
"You’ll find your one-in-a-million. But you’re sharp enough to know there’s no point in sludging through the first nine hundred, ninety-nine thousand, and ninety-nine to get to him."
— Kaye Gibbons (Charms for the Easy Life)
— Kaye Gibbons (Charms for the Easy Life)
"The fact that he had foamed at the mouth immediately upon dying, indicated that he had a great back jam of wishes and desires and truths that were never spoken...out bubbled all the words he had swallowed when he was alive."
— Kaye Gibbons (Charms for the Easy Life)
— Kaye Gibbons (Charms for the Easy Life)
"Unless society came out past Flat Rock Crossroads, kept on past Booker T. High School, hung two rights, a left, turned in on Milk Farm Road and found Roland plowing a tobacco field, jerked him off the tractor, warped him and set him back up there without anybody riding by and noticing, blame can't be laid on society."
— Kaye Gibbons (A Virtuous Woman)
— Kaye Gibbons (A Virtuous Woman)
"I could wake her up and ask have you ever been to the ocean? but I already know that answer. She has not. You can tell. It would humble you I whisper to her sleeping if you for one time stood by something stronger than yourself.
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— Kaye Gibbons (Ellen Foster)
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— Kaye Gibbons (Ellen Foster)
"The man in her dream would ride up and surprise her on his horse…saying her beauty pierced such a great place in his heart."
— Kaye Gibbons (A Cure for Dreams)
— Kaye Gibbons (A Cure for Dreams)
"When I was little I would think of ways to kill my daddy. I would figure out this or that way and run it down through my head until it got easy.
The way I liked best was letting go a poisonous spider in his bed. It would bite him and he'd be dead and swollen up and I would shudder to find him so. Of course I would call the rescue squad and tell them to come quick something's the matter with my daddy. When they come in the house I'm all in a state of shock and just don't know how to act what with two colored boys heaving my dead daddy onto a roller cot. I just stand in the door and look like I'm shaking all over.
But I did not kill my daddy. He drank his own self to death the year after the County moved me out. I heard how they found him shut up in the house dead and everything. Next thing I know he's in the ground and the house is rented out to a family of four.
All I did was wish him dead real hard every now and then. All I can say for a fact that I am better off now than when he was alive."
— Kaye Gibbons (Ellen Foster)
The way I liked best was letting go a poisonous spider in his bed. It would bite him and he'd be dead and swollen up and I would shudder to find him so. Of course I would call the rescue squad and tell them to come quick something's the matter with my daddy. When they come in the house I'm all in a state of shock and just don't know how to act what with two colored boys heaving my dead daddy onto a roller cot. I just stand in the door and look like I'm shaking all over.
But I did not kill my daddy. He drank his own self to death the year after the County moved me out. I heard how they found him shut up in the house dead and everything. Next thing I know he's in the ground and the house is rented out to a family of four.
All I did was wish him dead real hard every now and then. All I can say for a fact that I am better off now than when he was alive."
— Kaye Gibbons (Ellen Foster)
