Blue Hole Back Home Quotes

“You've had a tough crack at life, I'll give you that. But you don't got to let the bad thrown at you become the ugly you think you got to be.”
― Joy Jordan-Lake, Blue Hole Back Home

“Now all white Southern women keep as a weapon against uncouth world a certain smile that can be whipped out of storage and tacked up, in an instant, covering over a multitude of too-candid moments. My mother's face, whose upturned mouth never moved, registered confusion, then fear-then landed where I expected that steely doggedly cheerful resolve of a smile.”
― Joy Jordan-Lake, Blue Hole Back Home

“Because it wasn’t just the death of a sweet little beast we were marking—it was the death of what we thought we’d been doing, where we’d thought we were living, the death of being able to believe anymore in our innocence and the existence of goodness around us.”
― Joy Jordan-Lake, Blue Hole Back Home