Playing Dead Quotes

“It is a cancerous myth, that children are resilient.”
― Julia Heaberlin, Playing Dead

“This is something I love about native southerners—a hello includes more personal information than a Yankee would parse out in an hour. Actually, the hello often doesn’t include the word hello.”
― Julia Heaberlin, Playing Dead

“Tall arched Windows filtered in light from all sides, while creepy winged gargoyles leared from the top, waiting for someone with a wand to bring them to life. Inside, thousands of visitors a day chose from among six million books, for their proof that books would survive catastrophic events alongside the roaches.”
― Julia Heaberlin, Playing Dead

“A hug or any form of sympathetic body contact is the worst thing you can offer a Southern woman in tears if you’re looking for her to stop.”
― Julia Heaberlin, Playing Dead

“A granola friend, born somewhere north, once asked in disgust, “Why would any sane person want a greasy breaded crust around a slab of red meat?” If you had to ask, I told her, you’d never know.”
― Julia Heaberlin, Playing Dead

“This is something I love about native southerners—a hello includes more personal information than a Yankee would parse out in an hour.”
― Julia Heaberlin, Playing Dead

“old souls in little bodies, kids who never had a tight hug, a single peaceful night of sleep, or a place in the hay to disappear and have a good cry. For these children, the hard part isn’t getting them to keep a secret, it is getting them to tell.”
― Julia Heaberlin, Playing Dead

“Hawaiian shirt or a fishing shirt on a Texas man was a big clue that he was concealing a piece. Fashion”
― Julia Heaberlin, Playing Dead

“I read the letter for the forty-third time and it's like I'm twelve years old again sitting in the corner of a horse stall with a flashlight and a terrifying book, frantic to warn the heroine of terrible peril but secretly knowing I can protect her for a day, for months, for years, forever, simply by slamming the book shut. Ending her story in the middle.”
― Julia Heaberlin, Playing Dead

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― Julia Heaberlin, Playing Dead