Brunch at Ruby's Quotes

“But day in and day out, I’m watching the man I know as my father disappear inside the shell of a man I’ve never met, who doesn’t know me.”
― D.L. White, Brunch at Ruby's

“Malcolm is fucking my best friend.”
― D.L. White, Brunch at Ruby's

“I’m not some ugly duckling. I’m not a hopeless charity case. I may be different from Maxine in many ways but I’ll tell you one way I’m like her. I don’t bend to the whims of just any old dick that comes sniffing around. I do the choosing around here and I choose just fine. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have a father to take care of. Family takes care of family, right?”
― D.L. White, Brunch at Ruby's

“I didn't even need her to tell me she was your daughter,” says Roberta, beaming down at Kendra. “She looks so much like you, I imagined that you planted her in the yard and she grew like a delightful sunflower.”
― D.L. White, Brunch At Ruby's

“What I really wanted was to be naked and under him. What I really wanted was my first orgasm that wasn’t self-induced in four years. What I wanted, most of all was to have my back blown all the way out. Did I really want him to stop? Hell no.”
― D.L. White, Brunch At Ruby's

“And especially don’t give up things that make you happy for people who don’t show you the same courtesy.”
― D.L. White, Brunch at Ruby's

“A few months ago I would have told anyone that my goal was to put my father in a home, sell the bookstore and the house and high tail it back to Philly, but… something funny happened along the way. I started enjoying owning a bookstore. My best friends became my best friends again. And I met this very nice man who, against all odds and beyond my understanding, enjoys my company. My previous goals aren’t my goals anymore, so I don’t know what I want. Not anymore.”
― D.L. White, Brunch at Ruby's

“Okay. If you forgive me for bringing up how sorry your life is.” “You mean earlier today, or just now?” She raises her gaze to mine. “Both. Sorry.”
― D.L. White, Brunch at Ruby's

“I didn’t realize there was an appropriate span of time to return a call from a backstabbing bitch.”
― D.L. White, Brunch at Ruby's

“I’m nodding and grinning and I feel like an idiot but I don’t care. Dinner? With a man that knows my name? Absolutely.”
― D.L. White, Brunch at Ruby's

“If you like fried chicken, macaroni and cheese, collard greens and hush puppies−”
― D.L. White, Brunch at Ruby's