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“One always needs an alternate plan, a back door, a saddled pony waiting in the alley for a quick escape, perhaps a friend to hold it, perhaps not.” The”
Thelma Adams, The Last Woman Standing
“What were free elections if one crazy individual could veto the rule of democracy? And”
Thelma Adams, The Last Woman Standing
“My first husband dismissed my passion for cameras over cooking, and that’s why I have a second one.” Mollie”
Thelma Adams, The Last Woman Standing
“sometimes sitting still and gathering strength is the best action to take.”
Thelma Adams, The Last Woman Standing
“It’s an odd thing how a man who doesn’t want to be saddled with a particular woman anymore keeps upping the ante until she walks away from him as if it were her choice.”
Thelma Adams, The Last Woman Standing
“Drink became a sort of religion that washed away their sins, as likely to bring chaos as communion.”
Thelma Adams, The Last Woman Standing
“There’s a split second between life and death,”
Thelma Adams, The Last Woman Standing
“I’ve told my friends I’m napping, but I’m really hiding out.”
Thelma Adams, The Last Woman Standing
“gesticulating”
Thelma Adams, The Last Woman Standing
“her restaurant in her big, bloody apron, having a smoke. And I can see Johnny’s nine-year-old son, Albert, walking his beloved pony, Geronimo, back to Dexter Livery Stable,”
Thelma Adams, The Last Woman Standing
“but if I behave as if I know everything there is to know, I’ll never learn anything new!” “If”
Thelma Adams, The Last Woman Standing
“I was being played with the twin fiddles of his remorse and anger.”
Thelma Adams, The Last Woman Standing
“Oh, Josephine, Doc's just getting all Southern on you, Mollie said. He will keep asking about your ancestors to see if you are in some way related. This is as Georgian as red dirt and grits. It's what they do when they meet someone new. Probably so they don't sleep with their own cousins.”
Thelma Adams, The Last Woman Standing
“chaos”
Thelma Adams, The Last Woman Standing
“I wondered what a person could tell about a man by watching him eat ice cream.”
Thelma Adams, The Last Woman Standing
“I discovered that some men grow in stature when times are hard, refusing to shy away from the rocky soil of heartbreak. It’s their land and they plow it. Wyatt”
Thelma Adams, The Last Woman Standing
“His inner strength was as much a weapon as his shotgun. He’d”
Thelma Adams, The Last Woman Standing
“Beauty had its price. Just leave the cash on the nightstand. My”
Thelma Adams, The Last Woman Standing
“I found my faith in the desert stars and lighting campfires instead of Shabbat candles. I”
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“keeping house was no more my destiny than it should have been hers.”
Thelma Adams, The Last Woman Standing
“sometimes I think that a lie is as good as the truth if it’s prettily wrapped.”
Thelma Adams, The Last Woman Standing
“I had big dreams and big brown eyes and lashes like whips. I wanted to straddle my man like a pony and ride into the sunset. Pardon me for spreading my legs so soon. You hardly know me. But you will. You”
Thelma Adams, The Last Woman Standing
“Let’s face it: aging is a bitch for everybody. It’s a dumb joke that’s replayed every day when you awaken from dreams where you’re running around in your prime, chasing after men long dead with an ache in your pants, only to find yourself as you really are: creaky and misshapen, breasts touching belly, and alone in the spare bedroom under the roof of distant relations.”
Thelma Adams, The Last Woman Standing
“Tombstone kicked my ass and I kicked back.”
Thelma Adams, The Last Woman Standing