Bette Crosby > Bette's Quotes

“Here’s to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy.”
― Charlaine Harris

“Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind.”
― Henry James

“Don't get it right - get it WRITTEN!”
― Lee Child

“Strength is the capacity to break a Hershey bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces.”
― Judith Viorst, Love and Guilt and the Meaning of Life, Etc.

“Love is the most complex of all emotions. Hate is clean and uncomplicated, but love will turn you inside out and when it goes awry you’re left wondering what you did wrong. You always blame yourself even though the only wrong you’ve done is to give your heart to someone who was not part of your plan.”
― Cupid

“Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.”
― Mark Twain

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“She was so Southern that she cried tears that came straight from the Mississippi.”
― Sarah Addison Allen

“In life, finding a voice is speaking and living the truth. Each of you is an original. Each of you has a distinctive voice. When you find it, your story will be told. You will be heard.”
― John Grisham

“The worst handicap you can have is a lack of belief in yourself!

Lani Deauville”
― Bette Lee Crosby, Life in the Land of "Is"...the amazing story of Lani Deauville, the world's longest living quadriplegic

“sugar, if you ain't on speaking terms with The Lord, what right you got to ask Him to help you out?”
― Bette Lee Crosby

“She'd bottled herself up like a person already cremated.”
― Bette Lee Crosby, Spare Change

“For you, I was a chapter. For me, you were the book.”
― Tom McNeal

“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
― Mark Twain

“Sometimes its necessary to embrace the magic, to find out what's real in life, and in one's own heart.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, First Frost

“The Bible that is falling apart usually belongs to someone who isn't.”
― Kim Vogel Sawyer, Courting Miss Amsel

“The heart can't learn to heal until it knows it's been broken.”
― Bette Lee Crosby, What the Heart Remembers

“A man cannot change who he is. He can only hope that with age comes the wisdom to see his folly. I would like to believe I have achieved that.”
― Bette Lee Crosby, The Regrets of Cyrus Dodd

“A man's pride will cause him to do things you never dreamed possible. He got fired up about being right and blocked out everything else.”
― Bette Lee Crosby, The Regrets of Cyrus Dodd

“As I grow ever closer to the end of my time, I look back at this life and tell you that the only thing I would wish to give up is the regret I've carried in my heart for all these years. At long last I have come to realize the things I once counted as regrets were indeed blessings that I was too blind to see.”
― Bette Lee Crosby, The Regrets of Cyrus Dodd

“As sorry as I feel for myself, I feel even sorrier for her. I know she's afraid of staying and equally as frightened of going. Just as this land is a part of me, this house is a part of her. Selling off these things piece by piece is like cutting away chunks of her heart. I promised to make it better, but only God knows whether or not that's a promise I'll be able to keep.”
― Bette Lee Crosby, The Regrets of Cyrus Dodd

“Church words are easy to say, but they're not so easy to live by.”
― Bette Lee Crosby, The Regrets of Cyrus Dodd

“It's no such thing! she said. It's friendship! And if you're a man who can't tell friendship from charity, then you're to be pitied!”
― Bette Lee Crosby, The Regrets of Cyrus Dodd

“Cyrus is the meat and potatoes of my life, but Prudence was a cupcake I could enjoy just for the sheer sweetness of being with her.”
― Bette Lee Crosby, The Regrets of Cyrus Dodd

“He searched his mind for something more to say, something to take away her pain, but he could find nothing. There were no words to ease such a pain. He knew because the ache in his heart was as great as hers.”
― Bette Lee Crosby, The Regrets of Cyrus Dodd

“Here's to the future, he said and lifted the glass to his mouth. There was a lump of regret stuck in his throat as he spoke the words, but he washed it down with the whiskey.”
― Bette Lee Crosby, The Regrets of Cyrus Dodd