Dorothy Garlock > Quotes

“It was the strangest sensation, fallin' in love. 'Bout the only thing I compare it to would be jumpin' off a big cliff. Once you're past the edge, there ain't no particular reason to be graspin' for a line a safety. You just keep on fallin' anyhow, so you might as well enjoy it the whole way down.”
― Dorothy Garlock, Keep a Little Secret

“I've never done this when it was an act of love.”
― Dorothy Garlock, Sins of Summer

“It's so Quite around here, I'm sure I heard a Bird Fart!”
― Dorothy Garlock, After the Parade

“Could it possibly be that he yearned for some of the same things she yearned for? Love. Someone to call your own. Someone to share the joys and the sorrows of life.”
― Dorothy Garlock, Sins of Summer

“She wasn't certain of exactly what they had together; she doubted Owen knew, either; but whatever it was, she desperately wanted to hold on to it. They were only at the beginning of what they could become together; if she could help it, she would do anything that she could to keep it from ending.”
― Dorothy Garlock, Keep a Little Secret

“I like you more than any other woman I've ever met. I've never even thought about spending my life with one woman until now. I want to live with you, take care of you, grow old with you. I want to sleep with you in my arms every night for the rest of my life. I want to see your belly swell with my child - a son or daughter with mop of curly hair. I want you for my wife.”
― Dorothy Garlock, Sins of Summer

“come out in daylight unless”
― Dorothy Garlock, Mother Road

“comes”
― Dorothy Garlock, Sins of Summer

“and accepted the advances of another suitor. Nowadays, whenever he saw her around town with her family, he tipped his hat and quickly walked away as a sickening feeling filled his gut. Not for the first time, he wondered if he shouldn’t get a pet to cure his loneliness; at least then he wouldn’t have to come home to an empty house. “Maybe a dog,” he muttered to himself as Frank Sinatra began to croon from the living room. At least he had his work. Being an officer of the law had always seemed to fit Huck just right. He was good at”
― Dorothy Garlock, Take Me Home

“keep his eyes open for very long at a time. He didn’t even try to figure out how his brother had found him. He felt only a tremendous relief that he had. After dark Ike led the wagon past the school and into the yard of the homestead. As soon as the wagon stopped,”
― Dorothy Garlock, Sweetwater