Place Your Betts Quotes

“I'm a guy. Unless the dirt attacks first, I leave it in peace.”
― Katie Graykowski, Place Your Betts

“If you are reading this, I'm dead. Don't celebrate too much. Jesus is watching.”
― Katie Graykowski, Place Your Betts

“has regrets. Life isn’t about counting those and rehashing them, it’s about loving who you are and finding your place. You were born extraordinary—that is your normal. Let go of the ideal because no one can measure”
― Katie Graykowski, Place Your Betts

“was the only subject on which Betts and her mother had ever agreed. Gigi—Irma Cherie Dittmeyer—was the devil disguised as a Southern Baptist. She’d spent most of her life thumping her Bible so loudly she gave Jesus a headache.”
― Katie Graykowski, Place Your Betts

“She’s coming here? I knew she was on her way to New Orleans, but I thought we’d have the service at a funeral home.” Betts slung the dishrag over her shoulder. This was why her mother hadn’t wanted help planning the service—Gigi’s final farewell was to be the ultimate fuck-you. It was wrong. It was a sacrilege.”
― Katie Graykowski, Place Your Betts

“love she’d had for her grandmother had died sixteen years ago on May 25th at exactly 3:32 p.m. “I figure it’ll take the Peaceful Rest and Slumber folks”
― Katie Graykowski, Place Your Betts

“Can you help me move those tables against the wall?” Mama pointed to five tables in the back corner. “The funeral home said they needed four feet of clearance all the way around.”
― Katie Graykowski, Place Your Betts