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Three people can keep a secret if two of them are dead.
you lie down with dogs, you might get up with fleas,”
Never sit on a fence. It will make your butt flat,
Don’t be ashamed of your height, your hair, or your body. God gave them to you.”
Remember what I told you to do when opportunity knocks on the door? Invite it in and feed it chocolate cake.
Grinnin’ like a possum eatin’ wild grapes through a barbed wire fence.
the past was gone and should be forgiven. The future was just a glimmer of hope on the horizon; the present was what we had, and we should live it to the fullest.”
“Don’t ever let anyone tell you that you can’t dance in the rain.”
Mama said that a person could catch more flies with honey than vinegar, but I wasn’t interested in catching bugs of any kind.
“Anything worth having is worth taking a risk,”
Blessings come in strange places.
you couldn’t ever get rid of the past, but you didn’t have to drag it out and let it ruin the future.
“Sometimes our choices determine our fate. Sometimes we just follow where we are led and are amazed when we find happiness,”
“I don’t want to let anything other people think—even if it turns out to be something that’s whispered about for decades—keep me from living my life.”
“When will people learn to stop gossiping?” “When they’re laid out in the cemetery, I guess. Maybe there’s a special little area in heaven for the ones who can’t wait to tell what they know. It’s got barbed wire fences all around it so they can’t be a hindrance to the other folks up there.”
“Age makes no difference when it comes to lust.”
“When in doubt, don’t.” “What’s that supposed to mean?” “Mama used to tell me that all the time when I was a teenager,” I said. “It means if you have doubts or if you’re fighting with yourself, then you better take a step back and figure things out before you jump headfirst into the water.”
“Experience is what we get when we didn’t get what we wanted.”
“You know what a cardinal means,” Jasper said, then went on to tell me again. “It means someone that has gone on to eternity is thinking about you.
you got to understand the past to be able to look forward to the future.
