Sarah Bowens > Sarah's Quotes

“Louisiana is a fresh-air mental asylum.”
― James Lee Burke, Pegasus Descending

“Money can't buy happiness but it'll sure keep a mess of grief off your front porch.”
― James Lee Burke

“How do you explain to yourself the casual manner in which you threw your life away?”
― James Lee Burke, Swan Peak

“Love entered in my heart one day
A sad, unwelcome guest.
But when it begged that it might stay
I let it stay and rest

It broke my nights with sorrowing
It filled my heart with fears
And, when my soul was prone to sing,
It filled my eyes with tears.

But...now that it has gone its way,
I miss the dear ole pain.
And, sometimes, in the night I pray
That Love might come again.”
― J. California Cooper

“I was foolish because I believed in you. You are a fool because you believe in yourself!”
― J. California Cooper, In Search of Satisfaction

“I am a book I neither wrote nor read.”
― Delmore Schwartz

“There's something to be said about a slightly plump person—you have just enough of too much.”
― Jamaica Kincaid