Crazy, VA Quotes

“He’s also about five-six and walks like he’s seven feet tall.”
― Shannon Hill, Crazy, VA

“This trash rots the female mind! Only a man could possibly write a book where a woman falls in love with her rapist!”
― Shannon Hill, Crazy, VA

“He’s my cat! Or I’m his human. Whatever. C’mon, Aunt Marge,”
― Shannon Hill, Crazy, VA

“people love that Gone With the Wind ideal of genteel living, and conveniently forget that most of their ancestors wouldn’t have been let on Tara’s front porch.”
― Shannon Hill, Crazy, VA

“the system is falling down because it works. Law-breakers go to jail and there aren’t enough jails. Of course, it’d help if jails went back to being horrible places to be, and not schools on how to be a more efficient criminal, but that’s another issue.”
― Shannon Hill, Crazy, VA

“Let other people worry about the mafia, or gang-related organized crime. I live in the South. We’ve got Baptists. Their church-women whisper campaigns make J. Edgar Hoover look like an amateur. And anything found in Vogue or, in some cases, Charlottesville, was the lure of the devil and Satan’s snare.”
― Shannon Hill, Crazy, VA

“If there’s anything I despise, it’s “bless your heart”. Southern women use it to mean anything from “poor darling” to “rot in Hell, bitch”.”
― Shannon Hill, Crazy, VA

“A project never looks worse than right before it’s done.”
― Shannon Hill, Crazy, VA

“The words tumbled out of her faster than a flash flood down the mountainside. I couldn’t believe them, and if I hadn’t”
― Shannon Hill, Crazy, VA

“One more offense,” Judge Shifflett told Eddie, “and you’ll be cleaning trash off the roadsides from now till Glory. Without gloves.”
― Shannon Hill, Crazy, VA

“What for?!” squalled Eddie. “I wasn’t doin’ nothin’!” So much for Mrs. Perkins the English teacher at Littlepage Elementary.”
― Shannon Hill, Crazy, VA

“Is there any chance she suffered?” Odd way to put it. “After the third or fourth stab wound? No.”
― Shannon Hill, Crazy, VA

“Robbery not a likely motive. 2. Sexual assault also not likely. 3. She was stabbed. A lot. 4. The amount of blood at the scene indicated she’d been dumped. 5. This was gonna suck.”
― Shannon Hill, Crazy, VA

“didn’t speak Feline, but by God that cat knows English.”
― Shannon Hill, Crazy, VA