Poppy Done to Death Quotes

“I don’t have to take a stand by telling other people they’re wrong,” I’d protested. “What business is it of mine?” “If you love them, it’s your business,” he’d said firmly. “If their misbehavior is intruding on the happiness and well-being of others, it’s your business.”
― Charlaine Harris, Poppy Done to Death

“The southern standard of niceness was this: You’d never been convicted of anything, you didn’t look at other’s women’s husbands too openly. You wrote your thank-you notes and were polite to your elders. You had to take a keen interest in your children’s upbringing. And you made sure your family was fed adequately. There were sideways and byways in this “nice” thing, but those were the general have-tos.”
― Charlaine Harris, Poppy Done to Death

“People stubbornly lived their lives as they wanted, without regard to me, to an amazing degree.”
― Charlaine Harris, Poppy Done to Death