Claire Fullerton > Claire's Quotes

“Because the thing about being a Southern girl is they let you run loose until the time comes to shape you.”
― Claire Fullerton, Little Tea

“The Memphis Finley and I landed in was my mother’s Memphis. It was magnolia-lined and manicured, black-tailed and bow-tied. It glittered in illusory gold and tinkled in sing-song voices. It was cloistered, segregated, and well-appointed, the kind of place where everyone monogrammed their initials on everything from hand towels to silver because nothing mattered more than one’s family and to whom they were connected by lineage that traced through the fertile fields of the Mississippi Delta.”
― Claire Fullerton, Mourning Dove

“What is the fire of inspiration that resides within, if not something to follow along a path?”
― Claire Fullerton, Mourning Dove

“There is a feel about Galway you can wear around your shoulders like a cloak. It hangs in the air with its dampness; it walks the cobblestone streets and stands in the doorways of its gray stone buildings. It blows in with the mist from the Atlantic and lingers incessantly at every corner. I have never been able to walk the streets of Galway without feeling some unnamed presence accompanying me.”
― Claire Fullerton

“There’s an energy that hangs between strangers even in a crowd.”
― Claire Fullerton, Dancing to an Irish Reel

“There's a period of uncertainty that comes into play upon meeting someone who interests you. It must be inherent in attraction, for I’ve never met anybody who hasn’t experienced it, it’s just a question of to what degree they’re going to admit it.”
― Claire Fullerton, Dancing to an Irish Reel

“Nostalgia has selective memory; it softens the heart and strips the details to leave you with what should have been instead of what was.”
― Claire Fullerton, Little Tea

“I know now, since I'm well into my adulthood, that there's a side to the unions made in high school that has perpetual resonance, a side that remains in arrested development that will never let you forget who you essentially are.”
― Claire Fullerton, Little Tea

“Together, we were a girl complete. Separately, we were inchoate and in need of each other, like solitary pieces of a clock that were useless until assembled, but once assembled, kept perfect time.”
― Claire Fullerton, Little Tea

“But it seemed so wrong, so scandalous, somehow so unreligious for a dead man to have to keep on fighting - or running, anyhow - that it made me sick at my stomach. I didn't want to have any more to do with the war if this was the way it was going to be”
― Shelby Foote, Shiloh