Burying the Honeysuckle Girls Quotes

“Shy don’t set the world on fire,”
― Emily Carpenter, Burying the Honeysuckle Girls

“Trust me on this. People may die. Hatred doesn’t.”
― Emily Carpenter, Burying the Honeysuckle Girls

“She could keep her own counsel and let her mama settle things for herself. Her”
― Emily Carpenter, Burying the Honeysuckle Girls

“was quiet a moment. I had the crazy thought that the words of the story, when I let them out, would cut me. But that was nonsense, wasn’t it? Speaking words didn’t hurt; it was keeping them in that did that.”
― Emily Carpenter, Burying the Honeysuckle Girls

“Shy don’t set the world on fire.”
― Emily Carpenter, Burying the Honeysuckle Girls

“H.A.L.T., I reminded myself. Hungry. Angry. Lonely. Tired. It was one of those Twelve Step clichés they’d endlessly repeated in treatment. Well, I was definitely all four of those. Which meant I needed to stop whatever it was I was doing and take care of myself.”
― Emily Carpenter, Burying the Honeysuckle Girls

“I may win governor, but can you imagine what it’s going to take for a man with a murdering white supremacist in his bloodline to get into the White House?”
― Emily Carpenter, Burying the Honeysuckle Girls

“Robb was hosting her garden club. Since I was gone and”
― Emily Carpenter, Burying the Honeysuckle Girls