A Virtuous Woman Quotes

“It took me a long time to learn that mistakes aren't good or bad,
they're just mistakes, and you clean them up and go on.”
― Kaye Gibbons, A Virtuous Woman

“Oh, it's no crime to want and need somebody to love and to be loved by and to go and do what you need to do to have that, but its certainly a pity when you want it so badly you'll let it be anybody.”
― Kaye Gibbons, A Virtuous Woman

“Unless society came out past Flat Rock Crossroads, kept on past Booker T. High School, hung two rights, a left, turned in on Milk Farm Road and found Roland plowing a tobacco field, jerked him off the tractor, warped him and set him back up there without anybody riding by and noticing, blame can't be laid on society.”
― Kaye Gibbons, A Virtuous Woman

“You have to be so careful. You can't ever just throw words out. They have to land somewhere.”
― Kaye Gibbons, A Virtuous Woman

“That's all my grandfather was guilty of, fear, faith in his words, but that was a high crime in her eyes. That's all Jack was guilty of that day, but I've lived with him a good while and I believe I understand him. Sometimes it might take an afternoon or evening of being here in this kitchen alone, thinking, but I can usually come to see his reasons through his ways. And half the job of finding peace is finding understanding. Don't you believe it to be so?”
― Kaye Gibbons, A Virtuous Woman

“hear your man got cut real bad, might not make it.” She waited for me to touch her back or maybe break down, but I didn’t. I was so ticked off all I could say to her was, “That’s what they tell me.” She snapped her hand off me and told me it seemed like a woman would stand by her man, irregardless, and it seemed like that woman would be especially true after something like this, irregardless. I guess she meant regardless of the fact that he was a known bastard. But she broke stride with me and fell in with her friends, and I could hear her tell them how insensitive I was and with John Woodrow “laid up in the hospital, cut up and about to hardly make it.” Then one of the women said that was a shame, and she proceeded to tell them about how her sister nursed her husband after a bad wreck last year. She said the man’s face was sliced this way and that and his wife stayed right by him, feeding him through a straw, picking glass slivers from his lips. The woman told the”
― Kaye Gibbons, A Virtuous Woman: A Novel

“But sometimes the hardest things in the world to see are the ones that are right up on you.”
― Kaye Gibbons, A Virtuous Woman: A Novel

“took me a long time to learn that mistakes aren’t good or bad, they’re just mistakes, and you clean them up and go on.”
― Kaye Gibbons, A Virtuous Woman: A Novel

“And half the job of finding peace is finding understanding. Don’t you believe it to be so?”
― Kaye Gibbons, A Virtuous Woman: A Novel

“mistakes aren’t good or bad, they’re just mistakes, and you clean them up and go on.”
― Kaye Gibbons, A Virtuous Woman: A Novel

“half the job of finding peace is finding understanding.”
― Kaye Gibbons, A Virtuous Woman: A Novel