Porch Lights Quotes

“Daddies always listen to their little girls.”
― Dorothea Benton Frank, Porch Lights

“a good woman's heart knows no bounds. And love is the most powerful and wondrous gift in the world. Yes, it is.”
― Dorothea Benton Frank, Porch Lights

“Life is a struggle, I would tell him. Some days are better than others, and every person's life is bittersweet, filled with joy and pain.”
― Dorothea Benton Frank, Porch Lights

“the Devil danced all over the place in his beautiful eyes. You never knew what kind of surprise he had for you, just to make you laugh.”
― Dorothea Benton Frank, Porch Lights

“She says that on the day you stop believing in love you may as will lie down and die. I think she may be right.”
― Dorothea Benton Frank, Porch Lights

“because a book lets your imagination soar and a movie makes all the decisions for you. A book is almost always, but not always, a far richer experience than a book turned into a movie.”
― Dorothea Benton Frank, Porch Lights

“When you start running from trouble? It confers with the devil on how to find you twice as fast.”
― Dorothea Benton Frank, Porch Lights

“Okay. I could her deb wailing-in my head. This is the Lowcountry, Steve. That's how life goes around here.”
― Dorothea Benton Frank, Porch Lights

“What he didn't know was that he always would and that in all those important moments that were yet to come to pass in his life, there would be a searing wound. Over time the wound would grow smaller, but it would never disappear.”
― Dorothea Benton Frank, Porch Lights

“I would talk to him over breakfast and try to gauge how he was handling his life. Life is a struggle, I would tell him. Some days are better than others, and every person’s life is bittersweet, filled with joy and pain.”
― Dorothea Benton Frank, Porch Lights

“It’s a funny thing about a good porch overlooking the ocean. It was great in hot weather when you needed shade. It was good when it rained to be close to nature but stay dry and safe. It was soothing in the dark, or it could be a place to whisper secrets late at night. So”
― Dorothea Benton Frank, Porch Lights

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― Dorothea Benton Frank, Porch Lights

“I WILL TELL YOU THE one thing that I have learned about life in my thirty-something years that is an absolute truth: nothing and no one in this entire world matters more to a sane woman than her children. I have one”
― Dorothea Benton Frank, Porch Lights

“I stirred my coffee and looked at my beautiful grandson. What a great gift he was to all of us. It was so wonderful to have a young person like Charlie in my life”
― Dorothea Benton Frank, Porch Lights

“You’re going to worship the Lord? Dress for the occasion, please. And brush your hair. Anyway, no one had asked me to establish a Sunday-morning dress code for all the Christians of the world, so I’d just keep that nugget to myself.”
― Dorothea Benton Frank, Porch Lights

“Olé! Ándale, ándale! Arriba, arriba!”
― Dorothea Benton Frank, Porch Lights

“Wasn’t it just like good old mom to remind me my efforts were ill conceived and unnecessary?”
― Dorothea Benton Frank, Porch Lights

“That was the thing about hurricanes and tropical storms, they left town in the same fashion that a stubborn old dowager would leave a cotillion, slowly saying good-bye to her minions, returning for one last waltz, finally leaving for parts unknown, maybe to dissolve into nothingness or to simply find another party, gather steam, and raise a little more hell.”
― Dorothea Benton Frank, Porch Lights

“motivate”
― Dorothea Benton Frank, Porch Lights

“Yep. You’re right. Come on. Let’s go find Glam-ma.”
― Dorothea Benton Frank, Porch Lights