Sheila Kay Adams > Quotes

“I asked Granny one time if she thought green might be God's favorite color since he'd made so many shades of it.”
― Sheila Kay Adams, My Old True Love

“Some people is born at the start of a long hard row to hoe. Well, I am older than God's dog and been in this world a long time and it seems to me that right from the git-go, Larkin Stanton had the longest and hardest row I've ever seen.”
― Sheila Kay Adams, My Old True Love

“They was no slaves in Sodom unless you counted the ones what was white and female.”
― Sheila Kay Adams, My Old True Love: A Novel

“My mammy used to tell me that they was no such thing as dying. Said we really was just born twice’t. Once to this place, then again into the t’other. Said we entered both like newborn babies. And she said just like we waited for a baby to be born in this world, they’s folks waiting fer us to be born over yonder.”
― Sheila Kay Adams, My Old True Love: A Novel

“You don’t even know what you’ll miss about them. Oh, you have some notion, I reckon. You figure you’ll miss seeing them everyday, stuff like that. But, ye’ve no idea about them little things—”
― Sheila Kay Adams, My Old True Love: A Novel

“Course in my way of figuring, Vernon Lewis ought to have been shot a long time ago for being a fool, but if we start shooting folks for being fools then we’d be shooting right up till the end of time.”
― Sheila Kay Adams, My Old True Love: A Novel

“I have laughed more than most folks and I have cried just as much. I have lived hard at times, not so hard at others, and even let some days plumb get away from me. But who has not done the same? I have give and I have took. I have had a good run.
The smell of lilacs, cold spring water in my mouth on a hot summer day, the colors of fall, the sound of falling snow.
And what of the greatest of all? What of Love? Oh, I have knowed love. . .”
― Sheila Kay Adams, My Old True Love