Loraine Despres
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“Love is like cigarettes. It gives you a little pleasure while you're at it, but leaves you with a bad taste in your mouth and a pain in your chest.”
― The Southern Belle's Handbook: Sissy LeBlanc's Rules to Live By
― The Southern Belle's Handbook: Sissy LeBlanc's Rules to Live By
“A girl can stand just so much virtue.”
― The Southern Belle's Handbook: Sissy LeBlanc's Rules to Live By
― The Southern Belle's Handbook: Sissy LeBlanc's Rules to Live By
“Letting go is the best revenge. It frees your heart for much more satisfying pursuits.”
― The Scandalous Summer of Sissy LeBlanc
― The Scandalous Summer of Sissy LeBlanc
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“Watch out for men who are on speaking terms with the Almighty.”
― The Scandalous Summer of Sissy LeBlanc
― The Scandalous Summer of Sissy LeBlanc
“A girl can stand just so much virtue.”
― The Southern Belle's Handbook: Sissy LeBlanc's Rules to Live By
― The Southern Belle's Handbook: Sissy LeBlanc's Rules to Live By
“Love is like cigarettes. It gives you a little pleasure while you're at it, but leaves you with a bad taste in your mouth and a pain in your chest.”
― The Southern Belle's Handbook: Sissy LeBlanc's Rules to Live By
― The Southern Belle's Handbook: Sissy LeBlanc's Rules to Live By
“A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.”
― Scientific Autobiography and Other Papers
― Scientific Autobiography and Other Papers
“If you know anything about summer in Louisiana you know that the heat, moist and heavy, presses down on the pavement until it sends up shimmering mirages, and lovers, looking for a little noontime solace, stick to one another in high-ceilinged bedrooms.”
― The Scandalous Summer of Sissy LeBlanc
― The Scandalous Summer of Sissy LeBlanc

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