Deborah > Deborah's Quotes

“Shut up or I'll turn this car around”
― Mom

“Eat it or wear it.”
― mom

“Stop crying or I'll give you something to cry about!”
― mom

“I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty...But I am too busy thinking about myself.”
― Edith Sitwell

“People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.”
― Logan Pearsall Smith

“A new day always forgives you, unless it's raining and you wake up in jail.”
― Bob Thurber, Paperboy: A Dysfunctional Novel

“Why the long face? Something happen?"
"Nothing except my grandmother is still dead and my aunt moved to Sacramento and my sister just got out of a mental hospital."
"Oh," Huey says.
I spread my sack out, ready to load. Huey folds his handkerchief in half then in half again. I need him to check my count before I can go.
"Which part of Sacramento," he says, and I shrug.”
― Bob Thurber, Paperboy: A Dysfunctional Novel

“How can I write a book? you might say. I've got nothing to say. Don't let that stop you. Very few writers have anything to say. The trick is to see how long you can conceal that from the reader. The most successful writers are ones who've been able to get away with it for the greatest number of pages and years.”
― Bruce Jay Friedman