The Mammoth Cheese Quotes

“Every four years we go through the same cycle of hope and disillusionment.”
― Sheri Holman, The Mammoth Cheese

“It's the greatest of Southern honors . . . to have one's name incorporated into a family tree. It's an honor not lightly given.”
― Sheri Holman, The Mammoth Cheese

“Polly had always marveled . . . that her country would name such a processed and unnatural product [American cheese] after itself, yet hungry Rose . . . gleefully ate every individually wrapped, plastic little one of them.”
― Sheri Holman, The Mammoth Cheese

“He loved that she eschewed cursive for print, as he did. Cursive, more than anything, betrayed a person's age.”
― Sheri Holman, The Mammoth Cheese

“[H]e went ahead and named them without her, pulling from the spiral notebook of names they'd been collecting, putting together first and middle names with no rhyme or reason . . . names that obviously didn't flow.”
― Sheri Holman, The Mammoth Cheese

“[N]ames were what you wore forever, and she felt that she'd sent her daughters out in tacky rabbit fur coats when they should have been wrapped in mink.”
― Sheri Holman, The Mammoth Cheese

“If she'd spaced her children out and had eleven babies in eleven years, she would have been no better than her own mother and sisters: irresponsible, a welfare cheat, another bit of Sawdust Lane white trash. But as luck would have it, she'd had them all at once, and now she was, overnight, middle-class. And respectable.”
― Sheri Holman, The Mammoth Cheese