Ruby Quotes

“Hope was a dangerous thing, something best squashed before it became contagious. She”
― Cynthia Bond, Ruby

“It was the wrong Liberty.”
― Cynthia Bond, Ruby

“Ain’t nobody ever gone answer you cries. You can fill a well with tears, and all you gonna get is drowned. You sit there long enough and the crazy man find you. You weep too long, your heart ache so, the flesh slip off your bones and your soul got to find a new home. You wait on answers ’til the scaredy-cat curl up in your belly and use your liver for a pin cushion. And that’s just how you die. Ascared and waiting. And death find your ghost wailing for help. In this life, if someone promise you aid, they a lie. If someone offer they hand, check five time ten to see where they hide the bill. You ain’t nobody but alone. And God come to those with the fight to find It. Ain’t nothing easy. Not for the likes of you.”
― Cynthia Bond, Ruby

“I was going to make Supra Rankin some of my fig preserves for her husband’s great-uncle’s funeral on Monday if you was going that way … Lord knows it’s a shame that family don’t believe in getting they people preserved right. And how they think the man will keep fresh while they waitin’ on them Mississippi Rankins to get here I don’t know.” “Shephard’s Mortuary lay folk out nice, Mama.” “Shamed Mother Mercy last year with them red lips and rubbed-on fair skin.” “Mama …” “Woman look like a peppermint stick, Lord know.”
― Cynthia Bond, Ruby

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― Cynthia Bond, Ruby

“Don't let sorrow steal 'way truth. Don't blaspheme who we is.”
― Cynthia Bond, Ruby

“Girl, you a miracle of nature.”
― Cynthia Bond, Ruby

“Fucker-mother, bitches of sons.” Until the whole porch laughed. In the end after Ephram won, folks talked about how he walked from the porch in a kind of daze.”
― Cynthia Bond, Ruby