From a Distance Quotes

“That was a mite tacky, ma'am ... even for you."
Elizabeth let her mouth fall open. "Even for me? What's that supposed to mean?"
"It just means that people with" --He stared pointedly-- "your upbringing aren't usually the most polite folks around." ...
"Listen Ranslett, if I've offended you I certainly didn't mean t--"
"Sure you did. You just meant to do it in a way that would make yourself look bad." He turned to look at her more fully, and his eyes narrowed, though not in malice.
“When you’ve got something to say that isn’t kind, Miss Westbrook, there’s no way to couch it so that it is. Or to hide from how it makes you look when you do. That’s something us good ol’ Southern boys learn real quick about women.”
His accent thickened, comically so. “Your gender may say things with a smile, all soft and gentle-like, but some of you --- granted, not all --- have a dagger hidden in your skirts. Us country boys may not be as quick as some, ma’am, but it doesn’t take us too long to figure out who those woman are.” He winked at her. “We just check each other’s backs for the bloodstains.” He stood and reached behind him as though feeling for something. “Yep, feelin’ a little sticky back there.”
― Tamera Alexander, From a Distance

“It takes an awfully good man... to beat no man at all." - Tillie”
― Tamera Alexander, From a Distance

“It's best for a man to be thought a fool instead of opening his mouth and removing all doubt.”
― Tamera Alexander, From a Distance

“Then you'll need to teach him again, until he's learned. Just as I've done with you boys. That's what God does with us, after all. Puts us out into the world where the only real boundary is that of His love. His love either compels us, or restrains us. There is nothing stronger, Danny.”
― Tamera Alexander, From a Distance

“May I remind you that I’m paying you, very well”—she raised a brow, appreciating the ease of banter they’d shared since the outset of their association—“to carry my equipment and assist me in my work, not to offer opinions on my decisions.” “Ain’t no extra charge for them, ma’am. They’s free.” She shook her head at his broad smile.”
― Tamera Alexander, From a Distance

“That’s what God does with us, after all. Puts us out into the world where the only real boundary is that of His love. His love either compels us, or restrains us. There is nothing stronger,”
― Tamera Alexander, From a Distance

“I gets up each day and I face what God gives me to handle, ma’am. Sometimes I fear it. Won’t say that I don’t. But knowin’ He’s already sifted through it and that Jesus knows what’s comin’ before it gets to me . . . well, I reckon that ought to be enough.”
― Tamera Alexander, From a Distance

“Truth is constant. A person’s perspective might be skewed, but that doesn’t change what the truth is.”
― Tamera Alexander, From a Distance

“bindings”
― Tamera Alexander, From a Distance

“Fences can be prisons, in a way. They're necessary for those incapable of learning restraint, but they diminish life.”
― Tamera Alexander, From a Distance