Confessions from the Pumpkin Patch Quotes

“My father after all was a drunk. As much as I had loved him and adored him as a child, I had begun to realize how much he had wasted his life and his own opportunities in life. As much as I resented Mother's control of him, I began to realize that she had a reason for pushing him and that it was not entirely for selfish reasons. She also wanted our family to be more.”
― Karlyle Tomms, Confessions from the Pumpkin Patch

“Your daddy worshiped her. If that girl ever had a tear to fall, your daddy would have caught it in the palm of his hand before it ever hit the ground. He knew her like a road map on his heart.”
― Karlyle Tomms, Confessions from the Pumpkin Patch

“I've heard it said that any life worth living is worth living well. Perhaps they should have said, "any life is worth living." At least I believe that. If you are here it is because you are meant to be here. Maybe we are all here just to live our own story, only that.”
― Karlyle Tomms, Confessions from the Pumpkin Patch

“Prologue:
I've heard it said that any life that is worth living is worth living well. Perhaps they should have said, "any life is worth living." At least I believe that. If you are here, it is because you are meant to be here. Maybe we are all here just to live our own story, only that.”
― Karlyle Tomms, Confessions from the Pumpkin Patch

“I stared at him for a moment, pondering, taking in what he had just said. Then I settled back comfortably into those leather seats and watched the small town that had produced me flow gradually out of sight. There was a warmth in my heart then. I can't really explain how it felt. Up until that morning, I was indeed very fond of him, but I think it was then, right there in that brief passing of time that I fell in love -”
― Karlyle Tomms, Confessions from the Pumpkin Patch

“Walter Cronkite, after some introduction, came on and announced, "Good evening. Dr. Martin Luther King, the apostle of nonviolence, of the civil rights movement, has been shot in Memphis, Tennessee."
"Oh my god!" I cried aloud and held my hand over my mouth.
I watched in horror as awful descriptions of the assassination followed. My eyes filled with tears and my chest heaved as grief and fear flooded over me. I had seen this man speak at a march in New York only a year before. In many ways I felt almost as though I knew him personally.”
― Karlyle Tomms, Confessions from the Pumpkin Patch

“Child, I am telling you that you don't have to do anything to be special." She leaned forward a little more and patted my arm to call my attention. When I turned to look, her eyes met mine with a gaze of pure love. "You are already special," she went on. "You don't have to get an education to be special, but you can if you want to. You don't have to cure cancer to be special, but if you do the world would be grateful. God don't make nobody who ain't special. It means we are all equal in his love. There ain't no way around it. If you believe that love is real, then we are all equal in it.”
― Karlyle Tomms, Confessions from the Pumpkin Patch

“Maybe that's the genius you were talking about," I said. "The genius to heal it is to hit it head on and keep hitting it 'til you develop the strength to deal with it. Make sure you don't pull the rug over it and pretend it isn't there. Talk about it. Face it. Feel it. 'Til you heal it.”
― Karlyle Tomms, Confessions from the Pumpkin Patch