The Stones Cry Out Quotes

“In mourning, I realized the most painful place on earth was sometimes the church you attended with the person you loved, the person now gone.”
― Sibella Giorello, The Stones Cry Out

“I could see the solace she discovered. Here she could sing and dance and shout for glory among people who didn’t care which pew she sat in, whose people she belonged to, and whether she was baking a roast for the church homecoming. They were people who yearned for one thing, and one thing only: a pure relationship with that part of the Trinity so often neglected in organized worship. The Holy Spirit. Slouching”
― Sibella Giorello, The Stones Cry Out

“No, I’m saying those Yankees are messing things up again. No respectable Southern woman would ever say a girl was Rosewell’s ‘power mower.’ For heaven’s sake. That’s ridiculous. But those Yankees have tin ears. On language alone we should have won the war.” She looked at us. “The woman called that floozy his paramour. But some Yankee messed it up. Paramour. Power mower. You hear the difference?” Wally glanced at me. She was”
― Sibella Giorello, The Stones Cry Out