quotes by Kaye Gibbons

"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

"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)

"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)

"I've read two books a week for 30 years....I'm satisfied I know everything."
— Kaye Gibbons

"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)

"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)

"I am a great believer in variations on the routine."
— Kaye Gibbons (Charms for the Easy Life)

"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)