The Crossroads Cafe Quotes

“There’s something very freeing about losing the anchors that have always defined you. Frightening, sad, but exhilarating in a poignant way, as well. You’re free to float to the moon and evaporate or sink to the bottom of the deepest ocean. But you’re free to explore. Some people confuse that with drifting, I suppose. I like to think of it as growing.”
― Deborah Smith, The Crossroads Cafe

“Happy people look young. You’re really afraid of getting older, aren’t you? You should only be afraid of getting less happy.”
― Deborah Smith, The Crossroads Cafe

“The best sex takes us somewhere. Somewhere warm and expansive, a paradise of lust and happiness. Sex is and can be and should be but only very rarely is an act of communion with something bigger than ourselves. Men fuck and women make love, people say, but we men make love when we fuck a woman we adore: it’s the same thing to us. We mean it sincerely. I had places inside me only Cathy could fill with her body, and I made her happy with my body more than I ever thought I could.”
― Deborah Smith, The Crossroads Cafe

“There are people nobody notices, but the world revolves around them. They're the quiet ones, the strong, peaceful ones, who form the unbreakable hub for a bunch of fragile spokes. True families aren't bred, they're spun together. And at their center, at the center of the infinite wheel of every family of every kind, blood or otherwise, there is a hub, that person, those people, who hold the wheel together and keep it turning.”
― Deborah Smith, The Crossroads Cafe

“I stood there, my head bowed, my shoulders hunched. This is how it feels to be dragged from the cement shoes of a comfortable rut. The slow, steady strain on my legs became an excruciating amputation. My ankles pulled free from my feet. Bones snapped, cartilage tore, veins pulsed blood onto the soft brown clay of the yard. ”
― Deborah Smith, The Crossroads Cafe

“I buried my grief for my son, not my memories, but my grief.”
― Deborah Smith, The Crossroads Cafe

“I’m not happy, I’m cheerful. There’s a difference. A happy woman has no cares at all. A cheerful woman has cares but has learned how to deal with them. —Beverly Sills”
― Deborah Smith, The Crossroads Cafe

“I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman. —Anaïs Nin”
― Deborah Smith, The Crossroads Cafe

“There's never been a war in the history of the world that wasn't started by the wealthy for the wealthy”
― Deborah Smith, The Crossroads Cafe

“I'm not happy, I'm cheerful. There's a difference. A happy woman has no cares at all. A cheerful woman has cares but has learned how to deal with them.”
― Deborah Smith, The Crossroads Cafe

“Every time a hillbilly hears his cell phone ring, an angel gets a beer.”
― Deborah Smith, The Crossroads Cafe

“It’s not what hurts you that makes you respectable. It’s how you get over it.”
― Deborah Smith, The Crossroads Cafe

“La vida no cuece a fuego lento simplemente porque tú bajes la llama.”
― Deborah Smith, The Crossroads Cafe